Geometry/topology Seminar
Monday, October 24, 2022, 3:15pm, Zoom link
Oguz Savk (Stanford University, Mathematics)
Bridging the gaps between homology planes and Mazur manifolds.

Abstract:

We call a non-trivial homology 3-sphere a Kirby-Ramanujam sphere if it bounds a homology plane, an algebraic complex smooth surface with the same homology groups of the complex plane. In this talk, we present several infinite families of Kirby-Ramanujam spheres bounding Mazur type 4-manifolds, compact contractible smooth 4-manifolds built with only 0-, 1-, and 2-handles. Such an interplay between complex surfaces and 4-manifolds was first observed by Ramanujam and Kirby around nineteen-eighties. This is upcoming joint work with Rodolfo Aguilar Aguilar. [video]

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