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Links with Topologically Minimal Bridge Spheres
by
Puttipong Pongtanapaisan
University of Iowa
Coauthors: Daniel Rodman
David Bachman introduced the notion of a topologically minimal surface as a generalization of a strongly irreducible surface. These surfaces are useful and have been utilized by Bachman to solve Gordon's Conjecture and the Stabilization Conjecture. It is a conjecture that topologically minimal surfaces have all of the same properties as geometrically minimal surfaces. Many Heegaard surfaces have been verified to be topologically minimal, but less is known about topologically minimal bridge surfaces. In this talk, I will discuss joint work in progress with Daniel Rodman finding topologically minimal bridge spheres in link complements.
Date received: December 11, 2018
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