Knotted families from graspers

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Date 20.11.2025
Hour 16:0017:00
Speaker Danica Kosanović, Universität Bern
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Category Conferences - Seminars
Event Language English

I will introduce a geometric object called a grasper, and explain how it gives rise to families of embeddings of an arc or a circle into an arbitrary manifold of any dimension. These families are detected by Goodwillie—Weiss embedding calculus, so the question of their nontriviality is reduced to algebraic topology. In dimension 3 our discussion reduces to constructions of knots using gropes/claspers.
 

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  • Bjørnar Hem

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  • Maroussia Schaffner

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