ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Cut-and-paste conjectures and multicurves
Knot theory has seen extraordinary developments over the past decades. The arrival of modern homological knot invariants has had far-reaching implications beyond low-dimensional topology, giving insight into old problems through deep ties between knot theory, algebraic geometry, representation theory, Floer theory, and physics. My ERC project aims to establish a new perspective on knot homology theories using a new type of invariants, so-called multicurves. As objects of Fukaya categories of simple surfaces, these multicurve invariants make local versions of knot homology theories amenable to essentially combinatorial techniques. Thanks to their exceptional geometric and gluing properties,…
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