Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 04:30pm - 05:30pm
In the third and final talk in a series on Atiyah-Bott localization, we will count some lines. We'll discover that there are 27 lines on a general cubic surface in P^3 and, time permitting, will see that there is a unique line through two general points of P^2. It seems Euclid must have known about torus actions.
Location: PMA 11.176