Surgery obstructions and Heegaa rd Floer homology
Speaker:
Jen Hom
Date and Time:
Saturday, May 7, 2016 - 10:15am to 11:00am
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
Lickorish and Wallace proved that every closed oriented
three-manifold can be expressed as surgery on a link in the
three-sphere. This naturally leads to the question of which
three-manifolds are surgery on a knot. We give an obstruction coming from Heegaard Floer homology, and use it to construct infinitely many small Seifert fibered integer homology spheres which are not surgery on a knot. This is joint work with Cagri Karakurt and Tye Lidman.