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Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 23 Aug 2017 Calendar1: 23 Aug 2017 1100-1200 CalLoc1: Carlsaw 352
CalTitle1: Gardam, Determining hyperbolic 3-manifold groups by their finite quotients
Calendar2: 23 Aug 2017 1400-1500
CalLoc2: Carslaw 375
CalTitle2: Elder, The structure of solutions to equations in free and virtually free groups
Auth: timothyb@como.maths.usyd.edu.au
Group Actions Seminar: Gardam, Elder
The next Group Actions Seminar will be on Wednesday 23 August at the University of Sydney.
The schedule, titles and abstracts are below.
Speaker: Giles Gardam, The University of Oxford
Title: Determining hyperbolic 3-manifold groups by their finite quotients
Abstract: It is conjectured that if and are finite volume hyperbolic
3-manifolds, then and are isometric if and only if their fundamental groups
have the same finite quotients. The most general case in which the conjecture is known
to hold is when M is a punctured torus bundle over the circle, by work of Bridson,
Reid and Wilton. Distinguishing a single pair of hyperbolic 3-manifold groups by
naively enumerating finite quotients with a computer can take days. In this talk, I
will describe the relatively non-naive computational verification that the conjecture
holds when both and are chosen from the ~70,000 census manifolds included in
SnapPy, and the theory behind it.
Noon - 2pm Lunch
2-3pm, Carslaw 375
Speaker: Murray Elder , The University of Technology Sydney
Title: The structure of solutions to equations in free and virtually free groups
Abstract: I will describe work with Ciobanu and Diekert which expresses the full set of
solutions to an equation or system of equations over a free group, and over a virtually
free group, as an EDT0L language, and can be computed in PSPACE. EDT0L is a relatively
simple formal language class, so it is surprising that what seemed like a complicated
set has such an easy description. The new work with Diekert on virtually free groups
reduces equations to systems of twisted equations using Bass-Serre theory.
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