The Giroux correspondence via convex surfaces

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Vera Vétesi – University of Vienna
Organizer
John Etnyre

The “hard direction” of the Giroux correspondence states that any two open books representing the same contact structure is related by a sequence of positive stabilisations and destabilisations. We give a proof of this statement using convex surface theory. This is a joint work with Joan Licata.