Tuesday Seminar on Topology

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Date, time & place Tuesday 17:00 - 18:30 056Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Organizer(s) KAWAZUMI Nariya, KITAYAMA Takahiro, SAKASAI Takuya

2022/05/10

17:00-18:00   Online
Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Hokuto Konno (The Univesity of Tokyo)
Nielsen realization, knots, and Seiberg-Witten (Floer) homotopy theory (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
I will discuss two different kinds of applications of Seiberg-Witten (Floer) homotopy theory involving involutions. The first application is about the Nielsen realization problem, which asks whether a given finite subgroup of the mapping class group of a manifold lifts to a subgroup of the diffeomorphism group. Although every finite subgroup is known to lift in dimension 2, there are manifolds of dimension greater than 2 for which the Nielsen realization fails. However, only few examples have been known in dimension 4. I will show that "4-dimensional Dehn twists" yield a large class of new examples. The second application is about 4-dimensional invariants of knots. I will introduce a version of "Floer K-theory for knots", and will explain that this framework gives the first comparison result for the smooth and topological versions of a certain knot invariant, called stabilizing number. Although the above two topics (Nielsen realization and knots) may seem to have different flavors, they are derived from a common idea. The first one is proved using a constraint on smooth involutions on a closed 4-manifold from Seiberg-Witten homotopy theory by Yuya Kato, and the second one is derived from a generalization of Kato's result to 4-manifolds with boundary using Seiberg-Witten Floer homotopy theory. This talk is partially based on joint work with Jin Miyazawa and Masaki Taniguchi.
[ Reference URL ]
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html