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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Math 292 - Topology

Taehee Kim

Univ. of Bloomington

New obstructions to doubly slicing knots

Abstract:

A knot is doubly slice if it is the intersection of a three sphere with a trivially embedded two sphere in a four sphere. The resulting knot splits the two sphere into two distinct slicing disks for the knot. Thus, the term \"doubly slice\"".

Host: P. Teichner

June 6, 2003

4:00 PM

AP&M 7218

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