Topics in Low Dimensional Topology: Diffeomorphisms of Manifolds

Subject associations
MAT 567
Term
Fall 2024
Instructors
David Gabai
Registrar description

This course focuses on spaces of smooth embeddings from one manifold to another. Topics may include embedding spaces as infinite dimensional manifolds, spaces of diffeomorphisms of surfaces, diffeomorphisms of the 3-sphere, pseudo-isotopy theory, Cerf theory, and diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds.