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Plenary and Semi-Plenary Talks

Icon: calendar Plenary Talk: James Davis | 2025 Mar 06 from 01:30PM to 02:25PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) | Forbes 1022

‟The Borel Conjecture for compact aspherical 4-manifolds with boundary” by James Davis <jfdavis@iu.edu>, Indiana University

Abstract:

The Borel Conjecture for closed manifolds implies that two closed aspherical manifolds with isomorphic fundamental group are homeomorphic. The Borel conjecture for compact aspherical manifolds with boundary states that a homotopy equivalence which is homeomorphism on the boundary is homotopic to a homeomorphism.

Jonathan Hillman and I classify and prove the Borel Conjecture for all compact aspherical four manifolds with boundary with good (= elementary amenable) fundamental group. We classify all possible fundamental groups and all possible 3-manifold boundaries.