David Marker : Embedding differential algebraic groups in algebraic groups

Posted by David E. Marker , part of the Logic Seminar.

At

Oct. 30, 2007, 4 p.m.

In

SEO 427

Abstract

Pillay answered a long-standing open problem of Kolchin's by proving that any differential algebraic group can be differentially embedded into an algebraic group. I will discuss a simplification of the original proof due to Kowalski and Pillay.