Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 02:00pm - 03:00pm
Malyutin and Belousov proved recently that the proportion ofhyperbolic knots of given crossing number does not tend to 1as the number of crossings grows. This disproves a longstandingconjecture. I'll talk about why this result is surprising, itsrelation to other conjectures, and an idea of the proof.

Location: RLM 12.166