A Poly-Time Knot Polynomial Via Solvable Approximation
Speaker:
Dror Bar-Natan, University of Toronto
Date and Time:
Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Stewart Library
Abstract:
I will construct the first poly-time-computable knot polynomial since Alexander's (1928) by using some new commutator-calculus techniques and a Lie algebra g1 which is at the same time solvable and an approximation of the simple Lie algebra sl2.
Abstract link: http://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/Talks/Toronto-1609/
