Counting incompressible surfaces and the 3D-index

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Friday, November 16, 2018 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Stavros Garoufalidis – Georgia Tech and MPI
Organizer
John Etnyre
I will explain some connections between the counting of incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds with boundary and the 3Dindex of Dimofte-Gaiotto-Gukov. Joint work with N. Dunfield, C. Hodgson and H. Rubinstein, and, as usual, with lots of examples and patterns.