Geometry & Topology Seminar

Friday, March 3, 2017 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

David Duncan, McMaster University

“Identifying instantons with holomorphic curves”

A variant of the Atiyah-Floer conjecture states that the SO(3)-Donaldson invariants are iso- morphic to certain invariants coming out of symplectic geometry. I will discuss this conjecture in a few special cases that suggest an outline for proving the more general statement.

MC 5413