Event
William Chong ( Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 15:00to16:00
Burnside Hall
Room 920, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA
Title: One-relator Product of Cyclic Groups
Abstract: Howie proved (2002) that any one-relator product of 3 cyclic groups is never a trivial group, via constructing a non-trivial representation to SO(3). After stating the conjecture, we first focus on S^1-equivariant homotopy. Then, we describe a sketch of the proof. We may talk about some applications or generalizations if time allows.