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Combinatorial structure of fake algebraic surfaces

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Speaker: 
Alina Vdovina
Affiliation: 
Newcastle U\MPI
Date: 
Tue, 29/04/2014 - 14:00 - 15:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

In 1979 D.Mumford constructed a celebrated example of a fake projective plane,

but the same paper contains an outline of a much more general construction
of "fake" algebraic surfaces using groups acting on buildings.
We'll discuss explicit constructions of such groups,
old and new, and their connections with the algebraic surfaces.

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