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Slicing knots

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Speaker: 
Stefan Friedl
Affiliation: 
Regensburg
Date: 
Mon, 18/04/2016 - 16:30 - 18:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event: 
MPIM Topology Seminar

A knot in S^{4n+3} is called slice if it bounds a disk in the bounding ball D^{4n+4}.
We will discuss the obstructions to a knot K being slice. In particular we will discuss
a daring/foolish conjectural criterion for a knot in S^3 to be slice.

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