Skip to main content

Searching for slice alternating knots

Posted in
Speaker: 
Brendan Owens
Zugehörigkeit: 
University of Glasgow
Datum: 
Die, 18/10/2016 - 09:30 - 10:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Which alternating knots are slice?  Which are ribbon?  For which does the double branched cover bound a rational homology ball?  Unfortunately I can't answer any of these questions.  I will report on a computer search with Frank Swenton which found approximately 30,000 new examples of slice alternating knots, and discuss some related questions.

© MPI f. Mathematik, Bonn Impressum & Datenschutz
-A A +A