Math 290

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UC Berkeley, Fall, 2009

Instructor

Rob Kirby
kirby@math.berkeley.edu
Office phone: 510-642-0845.
Office: 919 Evans.
Office hours: 11-12am Wed. or by appointment.

Lectures (Wed)

Lectures take place on Wendesday, 10:10am to 11:00am, beginning 27 August, 09, in 939 Evans.

Course

I intend to lecture once a week on the existence and uniqueness of broken fibrations for 4-manifolds, X. A broken fibration on X is a map to the 2-sphere (or other surfaces) which has only indefinite folds. This is something like a complex analogue of a Morse function. It offers a new tool for analyzing all smooth orientable 4-manifolds.

Rob Kirby

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