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RAS Postdoc Seminar: Totally geodesic surfaces in twist knot complements September 17, 2020 (09:00 AM PDT - 10:30 AM PDT)
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Location: MSRI: Online/Virtual
Speaker(s) Khanh Le (Temple University), Rebekah Palmer (Temple University)
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Totally Geodesic Surfaces In Twist Knot Complements

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To attend this seminar, please register here: https://www.msri.org/seminars/25205

The study of surfaces has been essential in studying the geometry and topology of the 3-manifolds that contain them. In particular, there has been considerable work in understanding the existence of totally geodesic surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Most recently, Bader, Fisher, Miller, and Stover showed that having infinitely many maximal totally geodesic surfaces implies that the 3-manifold is arithmetic. In this talk, we will present examples of infinitely many non-commensurable (non-arithmetic) hyperbolic 3-manifolds that contain exactly k totally geodesic surfaces for every positive integer k.

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Totally Geodesic Surfaces In Twist Knot Complements

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