Loose Legendrians in high dimensional contact manifolds (I)
- Series
- Geometry Topology Student Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, March 1, 2017 - 14:05 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Hyun Ki Min – Georgia Tech
There
is no general h-principle for Legendrian embeddings in contact
manifolds. In dimension 3, however, Legendrian knots in the complement
of an overtwisted disc, which are called
loose, satisfy an h-principle. We will discuss the high dimensional
analog of loose knots.