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Chiral subsurface projection, asymmetric metrics and quasimorphisms
Last week I was at Oberwolfach for a meeting on geometric group theory. My friend and collaborator Koji Fujiwara gave a very nice talk about constructing actions of groups on quasi-trees (i.e. spaces quasi-isometric to trees). The construction is inspired … Continue reading
Quasimorphisms from knot invariants
Last week, Michael Brandenbursky from the Technion gave a talk at Caltech on an interesting connection between knot theory and quasimorphisms. Michael’s paper on this subject may be obtained from the arXiv. Recall that given a group , a quasimorphism … Continue reading
Posted in 3-manifolds, Groups
Tagged 4-ball genus, braids, Cochran-Orr-Teichner, knot concordance, quasimorphisms, ribbon, signature, slice
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