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We will define twisted homology and Reidemeister torsion. These are invariants of smooth manifolds together with a representation. We will show that Reidemeister torsion can be used to classify lens spaces up to diffeomorphism and we will see that Reidemeister torsion can be used to give invariants of knots and links.
We will define twisted homology and Reidemeister torsion. These are invariants of smooth manifolds together with a representation. We will show that Reidemeister torsion can be used to classify lens spaces up to diffeomorphism and we will see that Reidemeister torsion can be used to give invariants of knots and links.
We will define twisted homology and Reidemeister torsion. These are invariants of smooth manifolds together with a representation. We will show that Reidemeister torsion can be used to classify lens spaces up to diffeomorphism and we will see that Reidemeister torsion can be used to give invariants of knots and links.
We will define twisted homology and Reidemeister torsion. These are invariants of smooth manifolds together with a representation. We will show that Reidemeister torsion can be used to classify lens spaces up to diffeomorphism and we will see that Reidemeister torsion can be used to give invariants of knots and links.
We will define twisted homology and Reidemeister torsion. These are invariants of smooth manifolds together with a representation. We will show that Reidemeister torsion can be used to classify lens spaces up to diffeomorphism and we will see that Reidemeister torsion can be used to give invariants
of knots and links.
The subfield of low-dimensional topology colloquially called "3.5-dimensional topology" studies closed 3-manifolds through the eyes of the 4-manifolds that they bound. This talk focusses on Casson's question of which rational homology 3-spheres bound rational homology 4-balls. Since rational homology 3-spheres bounding rational homology 4-balls are a rare phenomenon, we will discuss how to construct examples.