Saturday, August 9, 2008

Public Service Announcement, BC


This was posted on all the lamp posts up Main St., but I'm concerned the author isn't getting the kind of coverage deserved for an issue like this, so I'm reposting it here...


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was all set to write this off as a crank until I got to the part about "geodesic orbit". The first google hit for "geodesic orbit" is a published paper from the Osaka Journal of Mathematics that states:

"We first show that homogeneous submanifolds with abelian normal bundle in a symmetric space of non-compact type occur as principal orbits of complex hyperpolar actions on the symmetric space. Next we show that all complex hyperpolar actions with a reflective orbit are orbit equivalent to Hermann type actions. Furthermore, we classify complex hyperpolar actions with a totally geodesic orbit in the case where the ambient symmetric space is irreducible. Also, we list up the cohomogeneities of Hermann type actions on irreducible symmetric spaces."

If the poster author understands that, then maybe they really are onto something; when ambient symmetric space is irreducible, anything can happen!

sam said...

There's an art gallery around the corner, I thought it might be a public art project, except that there really is a HAARP project. It "heats the ionosphere", which admittedly sounds ominous!