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Department of Mathematics, University of California 2010 Chern Lectures: "Lecture 2: Knot Floer homology"
Thu, April 15, 2010 4:00PM - 5:00PM
| Time: | 4:00PM - 5:00PM |
| Location: | UC Berkeley, Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall |
| Speakers: | Peter Ozsváth, Peter Ozsváth |
| Abstract: | Heegaard Floer homology can be used to define an invariant for knots in the three-sphere. This invariant, whose definition involves holomorphic curves, admits an elementary, combinatorial description in terms of grid diagrams. I will describe the construction, and sketch a combinatorial proof of its topological invariance. This lecture will cover joint work with Ciprian Manolescu, Sucharit Sarkar, Zoltán Szabó, and Dylan Thurston. |
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