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Thin and bridge position for manifolds other than the 3-sphere
Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar| Speaker: | Kevin Lamb, UC Davis |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Thu, Nov 2 2017, 2:10PM |
By a result of Abby Thompson, if thin position for a knot in the 3-sphere is not bridge position, then there exists an incompressible, meridional planar surface in the knot's complement. I will present work by David Bachman that generalizes this result to closed, irreducible 3-manifolds.