Low genus knots in lens spaces

Jacob Rasmussen (University of Cambridge)

Monday 20th October, 2008 16:00-17:00 Mathematics Building, room 214

Abstract

Let K be a knot in the lens space L(p,q) representing a nontrivial homology class. We say K has low genus if there is an essential surface in the complement of K whose genus is small relative to p. I'll explain how the existence of such knots is related to classical problems like "which L(p,q) are surgery on nontrivial knots in S^3," and "which L(p,q) bound rational homology balls?"

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