?? talking to alex ... bad audio connection, but ...

??? "hecke group" ... ??? ... ??any relationship to that picture with the mysterious tiny region ?? ... ??? maybe not, because doesn't that have a bigon or unigon or something ??? .... ??? ....

?? "schwarz triangle ..." .... ??? ??? "overlapping ... " ... ??? .... ??? ....

??alex somehow got into this from thinking about flag-geometric random-jump operators on projective plane ... ????....

??? lie algebra sl(3,reals) as acting on 2-sphere ??? .... ??? pulling back vector field along covering map ...

alex said some stuff around here that sounded maybe sort of interesting but i didn't quite follow ... something about ... sheaf ... etale space ... ??? .... ?? ???? ....

?? just curious : what's the group like that you get by combining the lie group here (?? what's the universal simply connected group like for the lie algebra sl(3,reals) ??? ... ??? ...) with the conformal group ??? .... ???? ... ??? general technique (pretty un-subtle ... ??? ...) we had for ... sort of describing structure given as "infimum" of two structures ... ??? " .... up to ... " ... ????? ..... ??? .... ??connection with "invariant higher-order distribution" ??? ....

?? stuff quinn said ... ?? about history of manifold theory .... ???? ..... ??? status of objects ... ??? as somehow fundamental vs later as sets with structure ... ... ??? "disillusionment" ... ??? .... ??"pathology" ... ??? ... ??? "concrete problems" ... ??? ....