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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Math 258 - Differential Geometry

Mattew Stoffregen

MIT

An infinite-rank summand of the homology cobordism group

Abstract:

The homology cobordism group of integer homology three-spheres is a natural invariant of interest to four-dimensional topologists. In this talk, we recall its definition and give a short introduction to involutive Floer homology, As an application, we see that there is an infinite-rank summand of the homology cobordism group. This includes joint work with Irving Dai, Jen Hom, and Linh Truong.

Hosts: Jianfeng Lin and Lei Ni

December 4, 2019

1:00 PM

AP&M 5829

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