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Knots in Washington XXXVII
January 19-20, 2014
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski (UT Dallas), Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU and UMCP), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Positive Links
by
Eamonn Tweedy
Rice University
Coauthors: Tim Cochran (Rice)

Cochran and Gompf defined a notion of positivity for concordance classes of knots that simultaneously generalizes the usual notions of sliceness and positivity of knots. This positivity essentially amounts to the knot being slice in a positive-definite simply-connected four manifold. We discuss an analogous property for links, and describe relationships with (generalized) Sato-Levine invariants, Milnor's linking invariants, the Conway polynomial, and some modern invariants.

Date received: October 29, 2013

Copyright © 2013 by the author(s). The author(s) of this work and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Topology Atlas. Document # cbid-02.