Thesis advisor: Joshua E. Greene / In this dissertation, we discuss cross sectional slices of embedded surfaces in the four-sphere, and give various constructive and obstructive results, in particular focusing on cross sectional slices of unknotted surfaces. One case of note is that of doubly slice Montesinos links, for which we give a partial classification. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2021. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Mathematics.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BOSTON/oai:dlib.bc.edu:bc-ir_109128 |
Date | January 2021 |
Creators | McDonald, Clayton |
Publisher | Boston College |
Source Sets | Boston College |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Text, thesis |
Format | electronic, application/pdf |
Rights | Copyright is held by the author. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). |
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