Constructing Exotic 4-manifolds

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, April 21, 2023 - 2:00pm for 1.5 hours (actually 80 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Jon Simone – Georgia Tech
Organizer
John Etnyre

This week, we'll continue discussing the rational blowdown and use it to construct small exotic 4-manifolds. We will see how we can view the rational blowdown as a "monodromy substitution." Finally, if time allows, we will discuss knot surgery on 4-manifolds.