- Series
- Geometry Topology Seminar
- Time
- Monday, April 22, 2019 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Adam Levine – Duke University
- Organizer
- Caitlin Leverson
Given an m-dimensional manifold M that is homotopy equivalent to an n-dimensional manifold N (where n4, Cappell and Shaneson showed that if M is simply-connected or if m is odd, then it contains a spine. In contrast, I will show that there exist smooth, compact, simply-connected 4-manifolds which are homotopy equivalent to the 2-sphere but do not contain a spine (joint work with Tye Lidman). I will also discuss some related results about PL concordance of knots in homology spheres (joint with Lidman and Jen Hom).