Tyler Honeycutt

Tyler Honeycutt

Bellingham Technical College and Western Washington University
, BH 401

Abstract

Manifolds and Their Tangent Vectors, and Can One Comb the Hair on a Ball in Rn?

This talk will discuss manifolds in Euclidean space, and what it means to have a vector field on a manifold. Then, a clever construction of a mapping in Rn obtained from vector fields on then−1dimensional sphere will be used to discover those dimensions in which the hair on a ball can be combed flat.