Special Lectures in Real & Complex Geometry

Thursday, 18.12.2008, 12:00-13:00, place: Schreiber 210

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Dmitry Kerner, Ben-Gurion University

The calculus of Euler characteristic and some of its application


Abstract
             

The classical (topological) Euler characteristic possesses various nice properties. This allows to use it as a measure in the integration over the topological spaces/varieties (as introduced by Viro). Then one can calculate the  "Euler volume" of the spaces in different ways, e.g. by using the classical Fubini theorem.

Comparing the answers gives a way to get some classical formulas from topology/enumerative geometry of smooth/singular/reducible plane curves and hypersurfaces.