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Geometry-Topology Seminar

Thursday, October 9, 2003 - 4:30pm

Jacob Rasmussen

Princeton

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

The Jones and Alexander polynomials are two well-known knot invariants. Recently, some "homological" generalizations of these polynomials have been developed - Khovanov's homology for the Jones polynomial, and the knot Floer homology for the Alexander. I'll discuss some properties of these homologies, and describe an interesting (but as yet unexplained) correspondance between them.