Character Varieties of Tangles and Singular Instanton Homology
Offered By: Western Hemisphere Virtual Symplectic Seminar via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Explore character varieties of tangles and singular instanton homology in this 56-minute lecture from the Western Hemisphere Virtual Symplectic Seminar. Delve into Kai Smith's research on using Lagrangian Floer Theory to study knots, following the program initiated by Hedden, Herald, and Kirk. Learn about decomposing knots, applying perturbations, and utilizing character varieties to obtain Lagrangian pairs in the pillowcase space. Discover how these Lagrangians' intersections can bound singular instanton homology of knots. Examine Smith's work on finding Lagrangians for tangle sums and understand why Lagrangian Floer homology alone is not a knot invariant. Investigate topics such as SU(2) character varieties, the 4-punctured sphere, perturbations, and the correct differential. Gain insights into the challenges of deriving knot invariants from Lagrangians and the need for more sophisticated methods in this field of study.
Syllabus
Intro
Singular Instanton Homology
SU(2) Character Varieties
Example: The 4-punctured sphere
The Strategy of Hedden, Herald, and Kirk
Perturbations
Examples
Perturbing R(C3) • How can the singularities resolve?
The Correct Differential
Taught by
Western Hemisphere Virtual Symplectic Seminar
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