SMS scnews item created by Catherine Meister at Wed 6 Aug 2025 1342
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 20 Aug 2025
Calendar1: 13 Aug 2025 1300
CalLoc1: SMRI Seminar Room (A12 Macleay Room 301)
CalTitle1: Geometry and Topology Seminar, ‘Small Triangulations of 4-Manifolds, the 4-Manifold Census, and 2-Knots’
Auth: cmeister@w95s10l3.shared.sydney.edu.au (cmei0631) in SMS-SAML

Geometry and Topology Seminar: Burke

Small Triangulations of 4-Manifolds, the 4-Manifold Census, and 2-Knots



Speaker: Rhuaidi Burke, University of Queensland

Abstract: We present a framework to classify PL-types of large censuses of triangulated 4-manifolds, which we use to classify the PL-types of all triangulated orientable 4-manifolds with up to 6 pentachora. This is successful except for triangulations homeomorphic to the 4-sphere, complex projective plane, and a particular rational homology sphere, where we find at most four, three, and two PL-types respectively. We conjecture that they are all standard. In the first half of this talk, I will discuss some of the ideas behind these results. In the second half I will focus on the combinatorial structure of the triangulations still resisting classification, and how these relate to ongoing work concerned with 2-knots — which we consider interesting in its own right.

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