USA Topology Seminar

Sequences and the faces of a link diagram

Iain Moffatt, USA

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Tuesday, April 4, 2012  
  ILB 370
  3:30-4:30  

Abstract The faces of a connected reduced link diagram divide the sphere into a collection of n-gons. I will describe some results of Adams, Shinjo, and Tanaka on which collections of n-gons can arise from a link diagram. This is a grad student-friendly talk.