Torus decomposition and foliation detected slopes

Seminar: 
Geometry & Topology
Event time: 
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 4:30pm
Location: 
KT 207
Speaker: 
Qingfeng Lyu
Speaker affiliation: 
Boston College
Event description: 

Boyer, Gordon, and Hu proposed a relative version of the L-space conjecture using slope detections and conjectured that this should be equivalent to the L-space conjecture for toroidal manifolds. We establish the equivalence for the foliation-detection part.