Event time:
Thursday, October 2, 2008 - 12:30pm to Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - 8:00pm
Location:
DL 431
Speaker:
David Futer
Speaker affiliation:
Temple University
Event description:
Consider a 3-manifold M that fibers over the circle, with fiber a punctured surface F. I will discuss some recent results that relate the volume of a maximal cusp of M (in the hyperbolic metric) to combinatorial properties of the arc complex of the fiber surface F. These results can be applied to estimate the volume of closed 3-braids.
Special note:
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