Degenerate Symmetric Matrices

Event Detail

Event type: Lonseth Lecture
Date/Time: 05/02/2006-14:00   
Location: LaSells Stewart Center

Speaker info

Speaker: Professor Peter Lax

Abstract:
Abstract: If a finite group G acts on a set X in such a way that each non-trivial element of G fixes a unique point, then they all must fix the same point (i.e. G has a global fixed point which is necessarily unique). We will cover the proof of this result as given in a paper by Max Forester and Colin Rourke.