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Seminar

Brunnian links of 3-balls in S^4

Speaker
Alison Tatsuoka
Date
Tue, Apr 14 2026, 4:00pm
Location
383N
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In 2019, Budney and Gabai introduced barbell diffeomorphisms and used them to construct knotted 3-balls in S^4. We will review the construction of barbell diffeomorphisms, and show how to use them to construct n-component Brunnian links of 3-balls in S^4 for all n \geq 2. Time permitting, we will mention more applications of barbells towards constructing knotting and linking in S^4. This is joint work with Seungwon Kim and Gheehyun Nahm.