On many occasions a local object (e.g. the germ of a map at a point) is essentially determined (up to a group action) by its finite jet, i.e. its restriction onto some N’th-infinitesimal neighborhood of the point. This “minimalistic stability” … Continue reading Colloquium: Tuesday, January 19, 2 pm. Speaker: Dmitry Kerner (Ben Gurion) . Title: “Finite determinacy”.