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Colloquium – Peter Johnson (University of Virginia)

March 24, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Title: A zero surgery obstruction from involutive Heegaard Floer homology

Abstract: A fundamental result in 3-manifold topology due to Lickorish and Wallace says that every closed, oriented, connected 3-manifold can be obtained by surgery on a link in the 3-sphere. One may therefore ask: which 3-manifolds can be obtained by surgery on a link with a single component, i.e. a knot? More specifically, one can ask: which 3-manifolds are obtained by zero surgery on a knot in the 3-sphere? In this talk, we give a brief outline of some known results to this question in the context of small Seifert fibered spaces. We then sketch a new method, using involutive Heegaard Floer homology, to show that certain 3-manifolds cannot be obtained by zero surgery on a knot in the 3-sphere. In particular, we produce a new infinite family of weight 1 irreducible small Seifert fibered spaces with first homology Z which cannot be obtained by zero surgery on a knot in the 3-sphere, extending a result of Hedden, Kim, Mark and Park.

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March 24, 2021
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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