The Simplicity Conjecture

I will explain recent joint work proving that the group of compactly supported area preserving homeomorphisms of the two-disc is not a simple group; this answers the ”Simplicity Conjecture” in the affirmative. Our proof uses new spectral invariants, defined via periodic Floer homology, that I will introduce: these recover the Calabi invariant of monotone twists.

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Speakers

Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, University of Maryland

Affiliation

Member, School of Mathematics