Eylem Yildiz, Michigan State University, A note on knot concordance

Name: Eylem Yildiz, Michigan State University, A note on knot concordance
Start: 2017-11-28T16:30:00-05:00
End: 2017-11-28T17:30:00-05:00

November 28, 2017 | 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EST

I will discuss concordances of knots in 3-manifolds. In particular I will show that all the knots in the free homotopy class of $S^1\times pt$ in $S^1 \times S^2$ are concordant to each other. By Akbulut it turns out that many of these concordances are invertible.

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Date:: November 28, 2017
Time:: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EST
Event Category:: Geometry and Topology Seminar

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