Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern

JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM


 
Holomorphic disks and low-dimensional topology

 

Zoltan Szabo

Princeton University
 
 

MIT

Thursday, October 17, 2002


Talk at 4:30 p.m. in Room 2-190

Tea from 4:00 - 4:30 p.m. in Room 2-290
Refreshments afterwards, in Room 2-290


 
 

Abstract:   In joint work with Peter Ozsvath, we constructed "Heegard Floer homology" groups for closed oriented 3-manifolds. This construction uses Heegaard diagrams and a version of Lagrangian Floer homology in the g-fold symmetric product of the Heegaard surface Sigmag. In this talk we will study some applications, and also a related construction that gives invariants for knots in S3.


 

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