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Geometry-Topology Seminar

Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 4:30pm

Josh Greene

Columbia University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

I will discuss the classification of which lens spaces arise by integral Dehn surgery along a knot in the three-sphere. A related result is that if surgery along a knot produces a connected sum of lens spaces, then the knot is either a torus knot or a cable thereof, confirming the cabling conjecture in this case. The proofs rely on Floer homology and lattice theory.