Applications of the knot Floer complex to concordance

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, November 14, 2011 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Jen Hom – Columbia University
Organizer
John Etnyre
We will use a new concordance invariant, epsilon, associated to the knot Floer complex, to define a smooth concordance homomorphism. Applications include a new infinite family of smoothly independent topologically slice knots, bounds on the concordance genus, and information about tau of satellites. We will also discuss various algebraic properties of this construction.