Bounding 4-manifolds

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Sudipta Kolay – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Sudipta Kolay
We will show that every closed orientable 3-manifold bounds an orientable 4-manifold. If time permits, we will also see an application to embedding closed orientable 3-manifolds to R^5.