Obstructions to slicing knots and splitting links

Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, 2014. === 49 === Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. === Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-68). === In this thesis, we use invariants inspired by quantum field theory to study the smooth topology of links...

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Main Author: Batson, Joshua
Other Authors: Peter Ozsváth.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90178