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Knot signatures and complex singularities - Lecture 3

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.

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  • DOI 10.24350/CIRM.V.20394203
  • Cite this video Golla, Marco (09/10/2025). Knot signatures and complex singularities - Lecture 3. CIRM. Audiovisual resource. DOI: 10.24350/CIRM.V.20394203
  • URL https://dx.doi.org/10.24350/CIRM.V.20394203

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