USNA Mathematics Department seminar
The talks for the academic year 1998-99
are held Wednesday in Chauvenet 116 at 3:45 pm unless
otherwise stated.
Speaker:
Dennis Spellman
Temple Univ.
Title:
THE COMMUTATOR CALCULUS
Subtitle: ON A QUESTION OF CHARLES SIMS RELATIVIZED TO THE
METABELIAN CASE
Abstract: 10 years ago Charles Sims asked if the n-th term of the lower central
series of a free group were the normal closure of the weight n basic
commutators in a fixed basic sequence. He obtained partial results. We
report that the question relativized to the free metabelian groups has a
positive answer.
Time: Wednesday, Aug 26, 1998
Reception at 3:30 in the common room on the 3rd floor of Chauvenet
Hall.