Event Detail

Event Type: 
Lonseth Lecture
Date/Time: 
Tuesday, May 2, 2006 - 07:00
Location: 
LaSells Stewart Center

Speaker Info

Guest 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.