Joint GT-UGA Seminar at GT - Homology Cobordism of Seifert Spaces

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, October 2, 2017 - 1:55pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Matt Stoffregen – MIT
Organizer
Caitlin Leverson
We use Manolescu's Pin(2)-equivariant Floer homology to study homology cobordisms among Seifert spaces. In particular, we will show that the subgroup of the homology cobordism group generated by Seifert spaces admits a \mathbb{Z}^\infty summand. This is joint work with Irving Dai.