03.12.2024 (Tuesday)

GE Diffeomorphisms of reducible 3-manifolds

regular seminar Rachael Boyd (University of Glasgow )

at:
15:00 - 16:30
KCL, Strand
room: S4.29
abstract:

I will talk about joint work with Corey Bregman and Jan Steinebrunner, in which we study the moduli space B Diff(M), for M a compact, connected, reducible 3-manifold. We prove that when M is orientable and has non-empty boundary, B Diff(M rel ∂M) has the homotopy type of a finite CW-complex. This was conjectured by Kontsevich and previously proved in the case where M is irreducible by Hatcher and McCullough.

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