Seminar series
Date
Wed, 22 Nov 2023
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
L6
Speaker
Adele Jackson
Organisation
University of Oxford
You may be surprised to see the generalised Riemann hypothesis appear in algorithmic topology. For example, knottedness was originally shown to be in NP under the assumption of GRH.
Where does this condition come from? We will discuss this in the context of 3-sphere recognition, and examine why the approach fails for higher dimensions.