Thu, March 5, 2026
3:00 pm - 3:55 pm
EA 160
Slava Krushkal
University of Virginia
Title
The Andrews-Curtis conjecture and low-dimensional topology
Abstract
The Andrews-Curtis conjecture is a long-standing open problem about presentations of the trivial group, related to some of the central problems in low-dimensional topology. I will discuss a generalization of the Andrews-Curtis conjecture and recent approaches using 4-manifolds and quantum topology.