Knot signatures and complex singularities - Lecture 2
By Marco Golla
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Rudolph conjectured that links of irreducible complex curve singularities are linearly independent in the concordance group. In this mini-course we will make sense of the previous sentence, then we will present a proof of a partial result in this direction (due to Litherland), and finally we will study a similar question in the context of deformations of singularities. If time permits, higher-dimensional objects and questions will make an appearance.