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Weinstein handle decompositions of complements of toric divisors in toric 4 manifolds
Geometry/Topology| Speaker: | Orsola Capovilla-Searle, Duke University |
| Location: | Zoom |
| Start time: | Tue, Dec 8 2020, 1:10PM |
We consider toric 4 manifolds with certain toric divisors that have normal crossing singularities. The normal crossing singularities can be smoothed, changing the topology of the complement. In specific cases this complement has a Weinstein structure, and we develop an algorithm to construct a Weinstein handlebody diagram of the complement of the smoothed toric divisor. The algorithm we construct more generally gives a Weinstein handlebody diagram for Weinstein 4-manifolds constructed by attaching 2 handles to T*S for any surface S, where the 2 handles are attached along the conormal lift of curves on S.
Joint work with Bahar Acu, Agnes Gadbled, Aleksandra Marinkovic, Emmy Murphy, Laura Starkston and Angela Wu.