Algebraic invariants, mutation, and commensurability of link complements

Geometry-Topology Seminar

Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 3:40pm

Jason DeBlois

University of Pittsburgh

Location

Temple University

Wachman Hall, Room 447

This is a joint seminar with Temple, Bryn Mawr and Haverford College as part of their PATCH series. Directions to Temple and to Wachman Hall are at http://www.math.temple.edu/directions/

IÂ´ll describe a family of two-component links with the property that many algebraic invariants of their complements can be easily computed, and describe the commensurability relation among its members. Some mutants have commensurable complements and others do not. IÂ´ll relate this to some open questions about knot complements.

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