Department of Mathematics
Title : The discovery of hyperbolization of a knot complement - Part 2 : the construction
| Speaker: Matthieu Jacquemet Affiliation: University of Fribourg/Freiburg Time: 10 am Friday, 30 March, 2012 Location: 303S-561 |
Abstract
| The aim of this talk is to use the tools presented one week before and see the explicit construction of the hyperbolic structure on the figure-eight complement, due to Riley (1975). The idea is to construct a hyperbolic 3-manifold whose fundamental group is isomorphic to the group of the figure-eight complement. Topological arguments (theorem of Waldhausen) lead to a homeomorphism between the two manifolds. We will also give a small survey of some related subjects (Mostow rigidity, Thurston geometrization, Kashaev volume conjecture) |
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Programmes and Centres
- New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (NZIMA)
- Community for Understanding and Learning in the Mathematical Sciences (CULMS)
- Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS)
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Engineering Science
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute
