Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar
On the existence of minimal Heegaard splittings
In the 80s Pitts-Rubinstein conjectured that certain kinds of Heegaard surfaces in three-manifolds can be isotoped to index 1 minimal surfaces. I’ll describe in detail a proof of their conjecture and some applications. This is joint work with Liokumovich and Song.
Date & Time
October 02, 2018 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm
Location
Simonyi Hall 101Speakers
Dan Ketover
Affiliation
Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics