Kate Petersen - Alternating quotients of twist knot groups - IPAM at UCLA
Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM) · 51:55 · Watch on YouTube
The talk shows that twist knot groups map onto (surject) almost every alternating group Aₙ, so alternating quotients alone are far too coarse to tell 3-manifolds apart. The method is computational and diagrammatic: on...