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Virtually Haken Conjecture
In topology, an area of mathematics, the virtually Haken conjecture states that every compact, orientable, irreducible three-dimensional manifold with infinite fundamental group is ''virtually Haken''. That is, it has a finite cover (a covering space with a finite-to-one covering map) that is a Haken manifold. After the proof of the geometrization conjecture by Perelman, the conjecture was only open for hyperbolic 3-manifolds. The conjecture is usually attributed to Friedhelm Waldhausen in a paper from 1968, although he did not formally state it. This problem is formally stated as Problem 3.2 in Kirby's problem list. A proof of the conjecture was announced on March 12, 2012 by Ian Agol in a seminar lecture he gave at the Institut Henri Poincaré. The proof appeared shortly thereafter in a preprint which was eventually published in Documenta Mathematica. The proof was obtained via a strategy by previous work of Daniel Wise and collaborators, relying on actions of the fun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topology
Topology (from the Greek language, Greek words , and ) is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of a Mathematical object, geometric object that are preserved under Continuous function, continuous Deformation theory, deformations, such as Stretch factor, stretching, Torsion (mechanics), twisting, crumpling, and bending; that is, without closing holes, opening holes, tearing, gluing, or passing through itself. A topological space is a Set (mathematics), set endowed with a structure, called a ''Topology (structure), topology'', which allows defining continuous deformation of subspaces, and, more generally, all kinds of List of continuity-related mathematical topics, continuity. Euclidean spaces, and, more generally, metric spaces are examples of topological spaces, as any distance or metric defines a topology. The deformations that are considered in topology are homeomorphisms and Homotopy, homotopies. A property that is invariant under such deformations is a to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documenta Mathematica
''Documenta Mathematica'' is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary mathematical journal by the German Mathematical Society published since 1996. The journal doesn't charge a publishing fee from authors, and all publications are available online free-of-charge as PDF files, making it completely open-access to both authors and readers. Since September 2017, articles are published under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. The current editorial board includes Henning Krause, Stefan Teufel and Otmar Venjakob. Since 1996 until 2017, ''Documenta Mathematica'' had been being published by Bielefeld University, since 2018 until 2022 by FIZ Karlsruhe, and at present by EMS Press. It's published as one 6-issue volume annually with approximately 60 articles vetted by reviewers. The publication related to the journal is the ''Documenta Mathematica Series'' (formerly known as ''Documenta Mathematica Extra Volumes''), a book series which publishes edited volumes and monographs. Abstracting and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3-manifolds
In mathematics, a 3-manifold is a topological space that locally looks like a three-dimensional Euclidean space. A 3-manifold can be thought of as a possible shape of the universe. Just as a sphere looks like a plane (a tangent plane) to a small and close enough observer, all 3-manifolds look like our universe does to a small enough observer. This is made more precise in the definition below. Principles Definition A topological space M is a 3-manifold if it is a second-countable Hausdorff space and if every point in M has a neighbourhood that is homeomorphic to Euclidean 3-space. Mathematical theory of 3-manifolds The topological, piecewise-linear, and smooth categories are all equivalent in three dimensions, so little distinction is made in whether we are dealing with say, topological 3-manifolds, or smooth 3-manifolds. Phenomena in three dimensions can be strikingly different from phenomena in other dimensions, and so there is a prevalence of very specialized techniques t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quanta Magazine
''Quanta Magazine'' is an editorially independent online publication of the Simons Foundation covering developments in physics, mathematics, biology and computer science. History ''Quanta Magazine'' was initially launched as ''Simons Science News'' in October 2012, but it was renamed to its current title in July 2013. It was founded by the former ''New York Times'' journalist Thomas Lin, who was the magazine's editor-in-chief until 2024. The two deputy editors are John Rennie and Michael Moyer, formerly of ''Scientific American'', and the art director is Samuel Velasco. In 2024, Samir Patel became the magazine's second editor in chief. Content The articles in the magazine are freely available to read online. ''Scientific American'', ''Wired'', ''The Atlantic'', and ''The Washington Post'', as well as international science publications like '' Spektrum der Wissenschaft'', have reprinted articles from the magazine. In November 2018, MIT Press The MIT Press is the uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geometry And Topology
''Geometry & Topology'' is a peer-refereed, international mathematics research journal devoted to geometry and topology, and their applications. It is currently based at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, and published by Mathematical Sciences Publishers, a nonprofit academic publishing organisation. It was founded in 1997Allyn Jackson The slow revolution of the free electronic journal Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 47 (2000), no. 9, pp. 1053-1059 by a group of topologists who were dissatisfied with recent substantial rises in subscription prices of journals published by major publishing corporations. The aim was to set up a high-quality journal, capable of competing with existing journals, but with substantially lower subscription fees. The journal was open-access for its first ten years of existence and was available free to individual users, although institutions were required to pay modest subscription fees for both online access and for print ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehrenpreis Conjecture
In mathematics, the Ehrenpreis conjecture of Leon Ehrenpreis states that for any ''K'' greater than 1, any two closed Riemann surfaces of genus at least 2 have finite-degree covers which are ''K''- quasiconformal: that is, the covers are arbitrarily close in the Teichmüller metric. A proof was announced by Jeremy Kahn and Vladimir Markovic in January 2011, using their proof of the Surface subgroup conjecture and a newly developed "good pants homology" theory. In June 2012, Kahn and Markovic were given the Clay Research Awards for their work on these two problems by the Clay Mathematics Institute at a ceremony at Oxford University. See also * Surface subgroup conjecture * Virtually Haken conjecture In topology, an area of mathematics, the virtually Haken conjecture states that every compact, orientable, irreducible three-dimensional manifold with infinite fundamental group is ''virtually Haken''. That is, it has a finite cover (a covering s ... * Virtually fibered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surface Subgroup Conjecture
In mathematics, the surface subgroup conjecture of Friedhelm Waldhausen states that the fundamental group of every closed manifold, closed, irreducible manifold, irreducible 3-manifold with infinite fundamental group has a surface subgroup. By "surface subgroup" we mean the fundamental group of a closed surface not the 2-sphere. This problem is listed as Problem 3.75 in Robion Kirby's problem list.Robion Kirby''Problems in low-dimensional topology''/ref> Assuming the geometrization conjecture, the only open case was that of closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. A mathematical proof, proof of this case was announced in the summer of 2009 by Jeremy Kahn and Vladimir Markovic and outlined in a talk August 4, 2009 at the FRG (Focused Research Group) Conference hosted by the University of Utah. A preprint appeared in the arxiv.org server in October 2009. Their paper was published in the ''Annals of Mathematics'' in 2012. In June 2012, Kahn and Markovic were given the Clay Research Awards by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virtually Fibered Conjecture
In the mathematical subfield of 3-manifolds, the virtually fibered conjecture, formulated by American mathematician William Thurston, states that every closed, irreducible, atoroidal 3-manifold with infinite fundamental group has a finite cover which is a surface bundle over the circle. A 3-manifold which has such a finite cover is said to virtually fiber. If ''M'' is a Seifert fiber space, then ''M'' virtually fibers if and only if the rational Euler number of the Seifert fibration or the (orbifold) Euler characteristic of the base space is zero. The hypotheses of the conjecture are satisfied by hyperbolic 3-manifolds. In fact, given that the geometrization conjecture is now settled, the only case needed to be proven for the virtually fibered conjecture is that of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. The original interest in the virtually fibered conjecture (as well as its weaker cousins, such as the virtually Haken conjecture) stemmed from the fact that any of these conjectures, com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Mathematical Society
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs. The society is one of the four parts of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics and a member of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences. History The AMS was founded in 1888 as the New York Mathematical Society, the brainchild of Thomas Fiske, who was impressed by the London Mathematical Society on a visit to England. John Howard Van Amringe became the first president while Fiske became secretary. The society soon decided to publish a journal, but ran into some resistance over concerns about competing with the '' American Journal of Mathematics''. The result was the ''Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society'', with Fiske as editor-in-chief. The de facto journal, as intended, was influentia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Bergeron
Nicolas Bergeron (19 December 1975 – 15 February 2024) was a French mathematician who worked in Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. Early career Bergeron obtained his PhD at École normale supérieure de Lyon in the year 2000 under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Otal. His thesis was titled ''Cycles géodésiques dans les variétés hyperboliques'' ("geodesic cycles in hyperbolic varieties"). Work Bergeron's main interests concerned the geometry and topology of locally symmetric spaces and arithmetic groups, as well as their cohomology, and their connection to number theory, in particular to Hilbert's 12th problem. Some of his publications showed an interest in Oulipo, referencing An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by Georges Perec. He also wrote a (non-mathematical) article about Jacques Roubaud. Bergeron was latterly a member of the editorial board of the journal Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS. Death Bergeron died on 15 February 2024, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Markovic
Vladimir Marković is a Professor of Mathematics at University of Oxford. He was previously the John D. MacArthur Professor at the California Institute of Technology (2013–2020) and Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge (2013–2014). Education Marković was educated at the University of Belgrade where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1995 and a PhD in 1998. Career and research Previously, Marković has held positions at the University of Warwick, Stony Brook University and the University of Minnesota. Marković is editor of ''Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society''. Marković's research interests are in low-dimensional geometry, topology and dynamics and functional and geometric analysis. Awards and honours Marković was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. His nomination reads: Marković was also awarded the Clay Research Award in 2012, Whitehead Prize and Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2004. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Kahn
Jeremy Adam Kahn (born October 26, 1969) is an American mathematician. He works on hyperbolic geometry, Riemann surfaces and complex dynamics. Education Kahn grew up in New York City and attended Hunter College High School. He was a child prodigy who mastered quadratic equations at the age of 7, at the age of 8 designed an equation identical to the one Carl Gauss designed at the age of 9, and proved the Pythagorean Theorem at the age of 10. Kahn was part of the Johns Hopkins University Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth longitudinal cohort. At the age of 11, he scored a 780 out of a possible 800 on the math portion of the SAT-I exam. At the age of 13, he became the youngest person ever to make the United States International Mathematical Olympiad team He participated in the Olympiad four times, winning silver medals in 1983 and 1984, and gold medals in 1985 and 1986. On the basis of his success in the Putnam competition, he became a Putnam Fellow in 1988. He received a ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
