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POSTGRAD RESEARCH STUDENTS' SEMINAR

Date: Thursday, September 2
Time: 2pm
Room: Red Centre 4082

Afternoon tea to follow in common room

Darboux proved that any bijective map of the plane to the plane
which respects collinearity is affine (i.e. is a translation composed with a linear map). A similar theorem holds for maps defined on bounded open convex sets. This talk is about transformations defined only on measurable sets.