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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Friday, October 5, 2018
3:00pm to 5:00pm
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Linde Hall 187
Embedding Seifert fibered spaces in the 4-sphere
Ahmad Issa, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin,
Which 3-manifolds smoothly embed in the 4-sphere? This seemingly simple question turns out to be rather subtle. Using Donaldson's theorem, we derive strong restrictions to embedding a Seifert fibered space over an orientable base surface, which in particular gives a complete classification when e > k/2, where k is the number of exceptional fibers and e is the normalized central weight. Our results point towards an interesting conjecture which I'll discuss. This is joint work with Duncan McCoy.
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