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Towards a braid theory of codimension 2 contact submanifolds, II

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Speaker: 
Jeremy Van Horn-Morris
Zugehörigkeit: 
University of Arkansas/MPIM
Datum: 
Mon, 03/02/2020 - 16:30 - 17:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event: 
MPIM Topology Seminar

In dimension 3, the theory of codimension 2 contact submanifolds is better known as the transverse knot theory of a contact manifold, a theory which has a complete description in terms of braid theory. In higher dimensions, almost nothing is known, but there is a small (but growing) list of results. I will explain a method developed with A. Kaloti to use open books and lefschetz fibrations to study codimension 2 contact embeddings. I will give a lot of background and present some initial applications and will highlight the similarities to and differences from the analogous story in dimension 3.

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