G&T Pre-Talk: Orderability of Knot Groups
- Series
- Geometry Topology Seminar Pre-talk
- Time
- Monday, December 2, 2019 - 12:45 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Speaker
- Jonathan Johnson – The University of Texas at Austin – jjohnson@math.utexas.edu
I will discuss the orderability of the fundamental groups of knot complements including known results, a useful technique using some ideas of Baumslag, and some interesting questions that have recently arisen from this study.