An introduction to knot theory, continued | Department of Mathematics

An introduction to knot theory, continued

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Event Date: 
Friday, October 2, 2015 - 3:30pm

Abstract: Continuing last week's talk, we will introduce Seifert's algorithm and construct Seifert surfaces for knots. We will also define the knot genus and compute it for some knots. Time willing, we will define the knot group of a knot K, the fundamental group of the knot complement with respect to a fixed ambient space.