Geometry and Topology Seminar: Torus decomposition and foliation detected slopes

Tue Oct 21, 2025 4:30 p.m.—5:30 p.m.
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Kline Tower, KT 207
219 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511
  • All Ages

Boyer, Gordon, and Hu proposed a relative version of the L-space conjecture using slope detections and conjectured that this should be equivalent to the L-space conjecture for toroidal manifolds. We establish the equivalence for the foliation-detection part.

Speaker:

Qingfeng Lyu 

Speaker Affiliation:

Boston College