College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Topology Seminar
Speaker:
Chris Davis
Topic:
Concordance and homotopy for knots in homology spheres
Abstract:
Any knot in $S^3$ may be reduced to a slice knot by crossing changes, in other words a homootpy. Indeed, this slice knot can be taken to be the unknot. During this talk I shall ask when the same holds for knots in a homology sphere. I will prove that that a knot in a homology sphere is nullhomotopic in a smooth homology ball if and only if that knot is smoothly concordant to a knot which is homotopic to a smoothly slice knot. As a consequence, we prove that the equivalence relation on knots in homology spheres given by cobounding immersed annuli in a homology cobordism is generated by concordance in homology cobordisms together with homotopy in a homology sphere.
Event Date:
December 5, 2019 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location:
217 MLH
Calendar Category:
Seminar
Seminar Category:
Geometry and Topology