TQFTs and tight contact structures on 3-manifolds

  • Kevin Walker | UC Berkeley

Topological quantum field theory methodology provides interesting perspectives on the classification of tight contact structures on 3-manifolds. It turns out that there are interesting unsolved problems about tight contact structures on the simplest 3-manifolds (3-ball and solid torus). Many of these can be reduced to the questions about the combinatorics of properly embedded arcs in the disk (D2).

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Kevin Walker is currently a Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley. His research interests include low-dimensional topology, topological quantum field theories and quantum computing.

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