SMS scnews item created by Haotian Wu at Mon 15 Aug 2016 1120
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 8 Nov 2016
Calendar1: 17 Aug 2016 1200-1300
CalLoc1: Carslaw 535A
CalTitle1: Are compact 3-manifold groups residually PSL(2,R) for finite, commutative R?
Auth: haotianw@como.maths.usyd.edu.au

Geometry & Topology

Are compact 3-manifold groups residually PSL(2,R) for finite, commutative R?

Montek Gill (Michigan)

Wednesday 17 August 2016, 12:00–13:00 in Carslaw 535A

Please join us for lunch after the talk!

Abstract: It is known that the fundamental groups of compact 3-manifolds are residually finite. Can the class of finite groups in this statement be restricted to the groups PSL(2,R) for finite, commutative rings R? Feng Luo conjectured this to be the case after solving the hyperbolic gluing equations over commutative rings and thus constructing generalised holonomy representations. We provide a counterexample but also show that the conjecture does hold for many of the eight classes of geometric manifolds. This is joint work with Stephan Tillmann and Stefan Friedl.