Seminars & Colloquia Calendar
SU(2) representations for toroidal homology spheres
Tye Lidman (North Carolina State University)
Location: zoom link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/96839448491?pwd=NHNWcVFKTWpkRDZWcVVhVm9mYTNGUT09
Date & time: Tuesday, 01 December 2020 at 3:50PM - 4:50PM
The three-dimensional Poincare conjecture shows that any closed three-manifold other than the three-sphere has non-trivial fundamental group. A natural question is how to measure the non-triviality of such a group, and conjecturally this can be concretely realized by a non-trivial representation to SU(2). We will show that the fundamental groups of three-manifolds with incompressible tori admit non-trivial SU(2) representations. This is joint work with Juanita Pinzon-Caicedo and Raphael Zentner.
