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Gauge Theory Learning Seminar

Detecting corks

Abhishek Mallick (Rutgers)

Location:  Hill 705 and on Zoom
Date & time: Tuesday, 06 February 2024 at 12:00PM - 1:00PM

Abstract: Corks are certain contractible 4-manifolds that are fundamental to the study of exotic smooth structure of 4-manifolds. In this talk we will describe techniques for detecting corks using various invariants and produce new examples of such objects. This is a joint work with many co-authors.