Tight contact structures on the Weeks manifold

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - 1:55pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Hyun Ki Min – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Jennifer Hom
The Weeks manifold W is a closed orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold with the smallest volume. Understanding contact structures on hyperbolic 3-manifolds is one of problems in contact topology. Stipsicz previously showed that there are 4 non-isotopic tight contact structures on the Weeks manifold. In this talk, we will exhibit 7 non-isotopic tight contact structures on W with non-vanishing Ozsvath-Szabo invariants.