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2020-05-07 / 10:00 ~ 11:40
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by 박정환(Georgia Institute of Technology)
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There are two different but closely related perspectives in low dimensional topology. Both are motivated by the fact that it is often easier to understand manifolds when broken into smaller pieces. Given a closed 3-manifold, it is natural to ask which compact 4-manifolds can it bound. More concretely, one can ask whether it bounds a compact 4-manifold with simple homology. I will talk about some recent developments in this direction including joint work with Aceto and Celoria. Another perspective is to consider knots in a 3-manifold which arises as the boundary of a 4-manifold and ask what kind of surfaces can the knots bound in the 4-manifold. A commonly studied special case is the 3-sphere and the 4-ball. I will talk about a result joint with Hom and Kang where we study the complexity of disks embedded in the 4-ball.
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