Buongiorno,

Ricordo a tutti gli interessati che il prossimo seminario di geometria sarà tenuto da Miguel Orbegozo Rodriguez e si terrà domani Martedì 22 Ottobre alle ore 14:30 presso l'aula Riunioni.

Per gli interessati ad andare a pranzo con lo speaker, l'appuntamento è in atrio alle 12:30.

Allego titolo e abstract:

Titolo: Murasugi sums and primeness of links

Abstact: In this talk I will present some results on how primeness of fibered links behaves under an operation called the Murasugi sum, which generalises the connected sum. As an application, this allows us to resolve a 30 year old conjecture of Cromwell in the case of braid closures. Cromwell showed that, if a link diagram represented as a positive braid features no circles that decompose it as a connected sum (in other words, it is not "obviously" composite), then the link is indeed prime. In his words, "positive braids are visually prime". He further conjectured that the same would hold for link diagrams that yield minimal genus Seifert surfaces when Seifert's algorithm is applied. If the diagram is required to be a braid closure, then Cromwell's condition is equivalent to the braid being homogeneous. Thus, we show that homogeneous braids are visually prime. This is joint work with Peter Feller and Lukas Lewark.

A presto,

Carlo