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Surface diagrams of smooth 4-manifolds, II

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Speaker: 
Jonathan Williams
Date: 
Mon, 21/05/2012 - 17:30 - 18:15
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall [2]
Parent event: 
Geometric Topology Seminar [3]

Any smooth, closed oriented 4-manifold M has a surface diagram, which is a closed, orientable surface,
decorated with simple closed curves, that specifies M up to diffeomorphism. I will discuss various
properties of surface diagrams.

 

Source URL: http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/3990

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