arXiv research

Study the JSJ-decomposition of a specific 3-manifold.

Study of knots sharing 0-surgeries, classifying and computing their properties.

In this paper we observe that 2-dimensional 0-surgery occurs in natural processes, such as tornado formation and other phenomena reminiscent of hole drilling. Inspired by such phenomena, we introduce new theoretical concepts which enhance the formal definition of 2-dimensional 0-surgery with the observed dynamics. To d…

Akbulut and Kirby conjectured that two knots with the same $0$-surgery are concordant. In this paper, we prove that if the slice-ribbon conjecture is true, then the modified Akbulut-Kirby's conjecture is false. We also give a fibered potential counterexample to the slice-ribbon conjecture.

We give a simple model in the complex plane of the 0-surgery along a fibered knot of a closed 3-manifold M to yield a mapping torus M'. This model allows explicit relations between pseudoholomorphic curves in the symplectizations of M and M'. As an application we use it to compute the cylindrical contact homology of op…

The study finds generalized torsion elements in 3-manifolds from specific knot surgeries.

Study proves 0-surgery characterizes infinitely many knots.

We present infinitely many homology spheres which contain two distinct knots whose 0-surgeries are $S^1 \times S^2$. This resolves a question posed by Kirby and Melvin in 1978.

New example shows figure eight knot not smoothly concordant but homology cobordant.

The paper calculates involutive Heegaard Floer homology for specific 3-manifolds.

Paper explores using 0-surgery to find exotic 4-manifolds.

New method finds infinitely many knots in 3-manifolds.

From Furuta's $\frac{10}{8}$ theorem, we derive a smooth slicing obstruction for knots in $S^3$ using a spin $4$-manifold whose boundary is $0$-surgery on a knot. We show that this obstruction is able to detect torsion elements in the smooth concordance group and find topologically slice knots which are not smoothly sl…

Given an irreducible closed 3--manifold $Y$, we show that its twisted Heegaard Floer homology determines whether $Y$ is a torus bundle over the circle. Another result we will prove is, if $K$ is a genus 1 null-homologous knot in an $L$--space, and the 0--surgery on $K$ is fibered, then $K$ itself is fibered. These two …

We show that, for each integer n, there exist infinitely many pairs of n-framed knots representing homeomorphic but non-diffeomorphic (Stein) 4-manifolds, which are the simplest possible exotic 4-manifolds regarding handlebody structures. To produce these examples, we introduce a new description of cork twists and util…

Suspensions of manifolds by circle surgeries are key in free action constructions.

Study compares WRT and CGP invariants using Habiro's series.

We give two infinite families of examples of closed, orientable, irreducible 3-manifolds $M$ such that $b_1(M)=1$ and $π_1(M)$ has weight 1, but $M$ is not the result of Dehn surgery along a knot in the 3-sphere. This answers a question of Aschenbrenner, Friedl and Wilton, and provides the first examples of irreducible…

Let N be a closed, oriented 3-manifold. A folklore conjecture states that S^1 x N admits a symplectic structure only if N admits a fibration over the circle. The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence to this conjecture studying suitable twisted Alexander polynomials of N, and showing that their behavior is the s…

New knot homologies detect non-fibered knots, expanding on previous results.

Modeling wormhole creation without singularities in relativity.

An excision theorem connects Heegaard Floer homology of 3-manifolds.

Explicit matrix presentations of Blanchfield pairings and twisted pairings for torus knots.

Algorithm finds knot diagrams from exterior triangulations.

Study on prime knots, slice obstructions, and ribbon concordances.

Novel mathematical approach using resurgent analysis reveals new structures in complex Chern-Simons theory.

We prove that the fundamental group of any integer homology 3-sphere different from the 3-sphere admits irreducible representations of its fundamental group in SL(2,C). For hyperbolic integer homology spheres this comes with the definition, and for Seifert fibered integer homology spheres this is well known. We prove t…

Topological surgery is a mathematical technique used for creating new manifolds out of known ones. We observe that it occurs in natural phenomena where a sphere of dimension 0 or 1 is selected, forces are applied and the manifold in which they occur changes type. For example, 1-dimensional surgery happens during chromo…