Thurston equivalence is decidable

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Thursday, October 26, 2017 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Nikita Selinger – University of Alabama-Birmingham
Organizer
Balazs Strenner
In a joint work with M. Yampolsky, we gave a classification of Thurston maps with parabolic orbifolds based on our previous results on characterization of canonical Thurston obstructions. The obtained results yield a solution to the problem of algorithmically checking combinatorial equivalence of two Thurston maps.