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Graduate Student Geometry-Topology Seminar

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 12:00pm

Elena Bogdan

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

3C6 DRL

A transversal knot is called transversally simple if it characterized up to transversal isotopy by its topological knot type and its self linking number. We'll prove that in a tight contact structure the unknot is transversally simple.