Colloquium: Ken-ichi Kuga (Chiba University)

When:
October 2, 2015 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
2015-10-02T15:30:00-10:00
2015-10-02T16:30:00-10:00

Speaker: Ken-ichi Kuga (Chiba University)
Title: Wild Topologies and Formalization

Many wild spaces appear in low-dimensional topology where naive
geometric intuition fails to hold. It is therefore desirable to formalize mathematical arguments dealing with those wild phenomena.
One basic theorem in this field of geometric topology is the Bing
shrinking theorem. In this talk, after introducing some of those interesting wild spaces
including the Alexander’s horned sphere, I will explain one of Bing’s original shrinking argument which constructs a counter-intuitive, hence wild,
involution of the 3-dimensional sphere. Then I will explain our formalization of the Bing shrinking theorem using the proof-assistant COQ,
and also our future plan of formalizing geometric topology especially in
dimension 4.