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Geometry-Topology Seminar

Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 4:30pm

Jen Hom

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

We will use the knot Floer complex, in particular the invariant epsilon, to define a new smooth concordance homomorphism. Applications include a formula for tau of iterated cables, better bounds (in many cases) on the 4-ball genus than tau alone, and a new infinite family of smoothly independent topologically slice knots. We will also discuss various algebraic properties of this new homomorphism.