Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar
Alan Reid
University of Texas at Austin
On Simon's conjecture for knots
Abstract: It is conjectured that for each knot $K$ in $S^3$, the fundamental group of its complement surjects onto only finitely many distinct knot groups. Applying character variety theory we obtain an affirmative solution of the conjecture for a class of small knots that includes 2-bridge knots. This is joint work with Michel Boileau, Steve Boyer, and Shicheng Wang.
Wednesday April 29, 2009 at 3:00 PM in SEO 612