Event Date:
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Event Location:
- 4607B South Hall
Event Contact:
Daryl Cooper
Email: cooper@math.ucsb.edu
Abstract: A knot $K$ is strongly invertible if there is an orientation preserving involution $f$ on $S^3$ that reverses orientation on $K$. The pair $(K,f)$ gives rise to a tangle, the two-fold branch cover of which is the exterior of $K$. This talk will focus on tangles of this form, and in particular, introduce an invariant of tangles extracted from Khovanov homology. This object may be viewed as an invariant of the pair $(K,f)$; our observation is that different strong inversions (as elements of the symmetry group of the knot) are often distinguished by this invariant.
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