A nonorientable version of the Milnor Conjecture (Cornelia A. Van Cott, USF)
Roberts North 104, CMC 320 E. 9th St., Claremont, CA, United StatesIn 1968, Milnor famously conjectured that the smooth 4-genus of the torus knot T(p,q) is given by (p-1)(q-1)/2. This conjecture was first verified by Kronheimer and Mrowka in 1993 and has received several other proofs since then. In this talk, we discuss a nonorientable analogue of this conjecture, first formulated by Josh Batson. We prove […]