Embedding surfaces in 4-manifolds听

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Arunima Ray, Max Planck Institute for 外网天堂

In-Person and Online Talk

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When is a map of a surface into a 4-manifold homotopic to an embedding? I will describe a general approach to this question, focusing on explicit geometric techniques. The talk is based on joint work with Daniel Kasprowski, Mark Powell, and Peter Teichner.听