Notions of knot concordance

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, October 7, 2016 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Jennifer Hom – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Jennifer Hom
The knot concordance group consists of knots in the three-sphere modulo the equivalence relation of smooth concordance. We will discuss varies ways to weaken the equivalence relation (e.g., considering locally flat concordances or concordances in more general four-manifolds) and what is known and unknown about the differences between the resulting groups.