Some specialized Kirby calculus constructions

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Sean Eli – Georgia Tech – seaneli@gatech.edu
Organizer
Sean Muhammad Eli

I'll talk about some specialized kirby calculus constructions: immersed surface complements and round handles. I'll prove using kirby calculus that S2xS2 minus an appropriate smooth embedded S2vS2 is diffeomorphic to R4. Maybe that is obvious, but the point is we can find nice diagrams where you see everything explicitly.