Description
Book SynopsisContains the proceedings of a conference celebrating the work of Steven Boyer, held in June 2018. The articles cover a broad range of topics related, but not limited, to the topology and geometry of 3-manifolds, properties of their fundamental groups and associated representation varieties.
Table of Contents
- Hyperbolic four-manifolds with vanishing Seiberg-Witten invariants
- Farey recursion and the character varieties for 2-bridge knots
- Virtually special embeddings of inegral Lorentzian lattices
- An exposition of the equivalence of Heegaard Floer homology and embedded contact homology
- Degenerations of representations and thin triangles
- Taut foliations from double-diamond replacements
- A census of exceptional Dehn fillings
- Parallelism on Lie groups and Fox's free differential calculus
- Culler-Shalen seminorms of fillings of the Whitehead link exterior
- Alternating knots with large boundary slope diameter
- Degeneration of strictly convex real projective structures on surfaces
- Examples of character varieties in characteristic $p$ and ramification
- Gonality and genus of canonical components of character varieties
- Tropical varieties associated to ideal triangulations: The Whitehead link complement
- A note on the coherence of 3-manifold groups
- Remarks on $SU(2)$-simple knots and $SU(2)$-cyclic 3-manifolds.
