Bi-Orderability and Pretzel Knots

Abstract: This talk concerns the bi-orderability of pretzel knot groups which appears to have a weird connection to the Heegaard Floer properties of the cyclic branched covers of the knots. In a recent paper, several new examples of bi-orderable pretzel knots are found. We will discuss these results and some of their implications to this strange coincidence of orderability and Heegaard Floer.

algebraic geometryanalysis of PDEsalgebraic topologycomplex variablesdifferential geometrygeneral topologygeometric topologyK-theory and homologymetric geometrysymplectic geometry

Audience: researchers in the topic

CRM - Séminaire du CIRGET / Géométrie et Topologie

Series comments: Hybrid seminar of geometry and topology. Laboratory : CIRGET - www.cirget.uqam.ca The homepage of the seminar is www.cirget.uqam.ca/fr/seminaires.html

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