Transverse links in the tight three sphere

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar Pre-talk
Time
Monday, October 15, 2018 - 12:45am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Lev Tovstopyat-Nelip – Boston College
Organizer
John Etnyre
We explain the (classical) transverse Markov Theorem which relates transverse links in the tight three sphere to classical braid closures. We review an invariant of such transverse links coming from knot Floer homology and discuss some applications which appear in the literature.