Loose Legendrians in high dimensional contact manifolds (II)

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Hyun Ki Min – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Justin Lanier
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.