The Kaplansky conjecture

Speaker:

Giles Gardam

Zugehörigkeit:

University of Bonn

Datum:

Mon, 23/10/2023 - 14:00 - 14:15

Location:

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Parent event:

MPIM Topology Seminar [3]

Short introductory talks

I'll discuss a series of conjectures on group rings, specifically about units, zero divisors, idempotents and direct finiteness, and how these relate to other open questions about L^2-invariants, K-theory and geometric group theory.