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JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM


 
The Surface Subgroup Problem

 

Vladimir Markovic

Caltech.
 

MIT

Thursday, October 22, 2015


 

Talk at 4:30 p.m. in 54-100

Tea at 4:00 p.m in E17-401


 
 

Abstract: The surface subgroup problem asks whether a given group contains a subgroup that is isomorphic to the fundamental group of a closed orientable surface. In this talk I will survey the role this question plays in some important solved and unsolved problems in 3-manifold topology, theory of arithmetic manifolds and geometric group theory.





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