An exotic contractible 4 manifold

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Sierra Knavel – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Roberta Shapiro and Weizhe Shen

We will discuss Akbulut's construction of two smooth, contractible four-manifolds whose boundaries are diffeomorphic and extend to a homeomorphism but not to a diffeomorphism of the manifolds.