Knot Concordance

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Speaker
Hugo Zhou – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Hongyi (Hugo) Zhou

Two knots are concordant to each other if they cobound an annulus in the product of S^3. We will discuss a few basic facts about knot concordance and look at J. Levine’s classical result on the knot concordance group.