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Unknotting nonorientable surfaces topologically

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Speaker: 
Patrick Orson
Affiliation: 
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Date: 
Thu, 03/08/2023 - 12:00 - 13:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

We use Kreck's modified surgery theory to prove that, in
most cases, a closed surface embedded in the 4-sphere is topologically
unknotted if the fundamental group of its complement has order two.
This is joint work with Anthony Conway and Mark Powell.

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