Professor Pavel Zalesskii (University of Brasilia) will speak in the Algebra seminar on Wednesday, 1 March 2017, at 3:00pm in room MB1012 (Minerva Building, which is building 1 on the university’s map). He will talk about The profinite completion of 3-manifold groups.
Abstract: We shall present structural results of the profinite completion Ĝ of a 3-manifold group G and its interrelation with the structure of G. Residual properties of G also will be discussed.