Joint UGA-GT Topology Seminar at GT: Upper bounds on the topological slice genus via twisting operations

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, October 7, 2019 - 3:30pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Duncan McCoy – UQAM
Organizer
Caitlin Leverson
I will explain how null-homologous twisting operations can be used to obtain bounds on the topological slice genus. In particular, I will discuss how one can obtain upper bounds on the topological slice genera of torus knots and satellite knots using these operations.