Speaker
Cameron Gordon
Description
It is well known that the ADE graphs arise in many classification problems in mathematics. In 2019 Michel Boileau, Steve Boyer and I conjectured a modest addition to this list: the fibered links that induce the tight contact structure on S^3 and have a cyclic branched cover whose fundamental group is left-orderable. We will describe the conjecture, its background, and some recent results that establish it in many cases.
This is joint work with Steve Boyer and Ying Hu.
