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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Special Seminar

Michael Freedman

Station Q, Microsoft Research, and UC Santa Barbara

The 2-width of 3-manifolds embedded in $\mathbb{R}^4$

Abstract:

Morse theory can be generalized to the study of maps to $R^k$. I will discuss where this leads, focusing on ambient Morse functions of embedded 3-manifolds. The relevance to the question of finite generation of the Goeritz groups $G_g$ will be explained.

Host: Bennett Chow

October 4, 2019

11:00 AM

AP&M 6402

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