Symplectic Monodromy at radius 0 and equimultiplicity of families of hypersurfaces with constant Milnor number
Javier Fernández de Bobadilla and Tomasz PelkaAGDT Seminar
on 6/10/22
We describe the (purely) cosmetic surgery conjecture, and show how it can be proved forpretzel knots. Along the way we also give a method for estimating the thickness of a knot from one of its diagrams.