The mapping class group of a Heegaard splitting of the 3-torus.

Seminar: 
Geometry & Topology
Event time: 
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 12:30pm to Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - 8:00pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Jesse Johnson
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale
Event description: 

The mapping class group of a Heegaard splitting is the group
of (isotopy classes of) automorphisms of
the ambient 3-manifold that take the Heegaard surface onto itself. I
will describe a number of
elements of the mapping class group of a genus three Heegaard splitting
of the 3-torus and
outline the key points of a proof that these elements generate the
entire group.