Geometry and Topology Seminar

Series: Geometry and Topology Seminar Series

A graph coloring problem and its algebraic and topological consequences

Daniel Wise, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University ,

I will first describe a simple graph coloring problem and survey some examples of graphs for which the coloring problem has or has no solution. I will then give a quick introduction to Bestvina-Brady Morse theory. Finally, I will describe the relationship between the coloring problem and some amusing virtual algebraic fibering consequences for geometric group theory and hyperbolic 4-manifolds. This is joint work with Kasia Jankiewicz and Sergey Norin.

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