Speaker:
Professor Alain Louveau
Institution:
CNRS and Universite de Paris VI
Time:
Monday, December 4, 2006 - 4:00pm
Location:
MSTB 256
It is proved that the relation of isomorphism between separable Banach
spaces is a complete analytic equivalence relation, i.e., that any
analytic equivalence relation Borel reduces to it. Thus, separable Banach
spaces up to isomorphism provide complete invariants for a great number of
mathematical structures up to their corresponding notion of isomorphism.