Slicing knots

Speaker:

Stefan Friedl

Affiliation:

Regensburg

Date:

Mon, 18/04/2016 - 16:30 - 18:00

Location:

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Parent event:

MPIM Topology Seminar [3]

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.