Time: | 3:30pm - 4:30 pm |
Room: |
Wean Hall 8220
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Speaker: |
Andy Zucker Department of Mathematical Sciences CMU |
Title: |
An ultrafilter proof of the 2-dimensional Halpern-Laüchli Theorem
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Abstract: |
We will discuss the Halpern-Laüchli Theorem and provide a new proof in dimension 2. The idea is to use an ultrafilter on ω to turn combinatorics on trees into combinatorics on the branches, that is Cantor space. Time permitting, we will discuss obstacles to generalizing the proof to higher dimensions. |