Homology cobordism and Dehn surgery

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, November 21, 2016 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Francesco Lin – Princeton
Organizer
Jennifer Hom
We discuss a few applications of Pin(2)-monopole Floer homology to problems in homology cobordism. Our main protagonists are (connected sums of) homology spheres obtained by surgery on alternating and L-space knots with Arf invariant zero.