3-manifolds study Hasse norm principle, akin to number fields.
problem Topological analog of Hasse norm principle for 3-manifolds.
method Analogy with number fields and finite cyclic coverings.
result Showed topological Hasse norm principle for 3-manifolds.
Smoothly embed 3-manifolds in 5-manifolds, simplifying topological to smooth.
problem Embedding 3-manifolds smoothly in 5-manifolds.
method Homotopy and small homotopy to achieve smooth embeddings.
result Locally flat embeddings are homotopic to smooth ones.
Enhanced bounds on rho-invariants for 3-manifolds.
problem Establishing bounds on Cheeger-Gromov rho-invariants for 3-manifolds.
method Constructing chain null-homotopies with linear complexity.
result Linearly bounded complexity of constructed null-homotopies.
Classifies involutions on spherical 3-manifolds.
problem Classifying involutions on spherical 3-manifolds.
method Geometric approach to conjugacy classification.
result Insights into topological properties of involutions.
3-manifold triangulations are Golod and tight, proven through a topological characterization.
problem Understanding Golodness and tightness in 3-manifold triangulations.
method Topological characterization of a polyhedral product for a tight-neighborly manifold triangulation.
result Golodness and tightness are equivalent for 3-manifold triangulations.
We investigate relation between Dehn fillings and commensurability of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. The set consisting of the commensurability classes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds admits the quotient topology induced by the geometric topology. We show that this quotient space satisfies some separation axioms. Roughly speaking, …
The paper defines and analyzes a volume invariant for 3-manifolds.
problem Defining and analyzing a topological invariant for 3-manifolds.
method Definition and analysis of topological volume, refinements, bounds determination, classification of manifolds.
result Asymptotically tight upper and lower bounds for topological volume, classification of non-hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Neumann's work connects 3-manifold invariants to quantum topology.
problem Understanding invariants of 3-manifolds.
method Ideal triangulations, volume, Chern-Simons invariants, Bloch group.
result Neumann's work bridges classical invariants to quantum topology.
We survey work on the topology of the space AH(M) of all (marked) hyperbolic 3-manifolds homotopy equivalent to a fixed compact 3-manifold M with boundary. The interior of AH(M) is quite well-understood, but the topology of the entire space can be quite complicated. However, the topology is well-behaved at many points …
Novel M-theory approach classifies topological phases of matter.
problem Classifying and understanding topological phases of matter.
method Establishing a correspondence between (2+1)d topological field theories and non-hyperbolic 3-manifolds, identifying topological phases from internal wrapped 3-manifolds.
result Paves a new route toward the classification of topological phases of matter, including fermionic and non-unitary phases.
The paper shows that certain 3-manifolds are essentially Euclidean space.
problem Understanding the relationship between topological rigidity and positive scalar curvature.
method Analyzing complete contractible 3-manifolds with non-negative scalar curvature.
result Any complete contractible 3-manifold with non-negative scalar curvature is homeomorphic to \(\mathbf{R}^3\).
In the third part of this series of papers, we establish several topological results that will become important for studying the long-time behavior of Ricci flows with surgery. In the first part of this paper we recall some elementary observations in the topology of 3-manifolds. The main part is devoted to the construc…
Proof of genus formula for 3-manifolds using arithmetic topology.
problem Proving a genus formula for finite abelian branched covers over integral homology 3-spheres.
method Utilizing analogies of arithmetic topology and Hasse norm principle.
result Presentation of an Iyanaga--Tamagawa type genus formula.
Explains research on 3D dynamics and manifold topology.
problem Understanding obstructions for Anosov flows on 3-manifolds.
method Expository note on partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms and Anosov flows.
result Margulis and Plante-Thurston's topological obstructions for Anosov flows.
Power series invariant of hyperbolic 3-manifolds matches knot invariants.
problem Understanding topological invariants of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Perturbative power series associated with ideally triangulated cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
result The power series agrees with Kashaev and Andersen-Kashaev invariants to all orders.
First the title could be also understood as ``3-manifolds related by non-zero degree maps" or "Degrees of maps between 3-manifolds" for some aspects in this survey talk. The topology of surfaces was completely understood at the end of 19th century, but maps between surfaces kept to be an active topic in the 20th centur…
To each isolated critical point of a smooth function on a 3-manifold we put in correspondence a tree (graph without cycles). We will prove that functions are topologically equivalent in the neighborhoods of critical points if and only if the corresponding trees are isomorphic. A complete topological invariant of functi…
Proves hyperbolic 3-manifolds have angle structures under certain conditions.
problem Proving angle structures for non-compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Subdividing ideal polyhedral decompositions and applying topological conditions.
result Proves existence of ideal triangulations with angle structures.
We define some new invariants for 3-manifolds using the space of taut codim-1 foliations along with various techniques from noncommutative geometry. These invariants originate from our attempt to generalise Topological Quantum Field Theories in the Noncommutative geometry / topology realm.
No CMC surfaces exist in certain hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
problem Existence of constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Proof by contradiction using hyperbolic geometry and topology.
result Nonexistence of CMC surfaces with mean curvature ≥ 1.
Researchers prove quantum invariants remain hard even when restricted.
problem Computing quantum invariants on 3-manifolds with specific restrictions.
method Using Heegaard splittings and Hempel distance, they construct a hyperbolic 3-manifold with same invariant.
result Proving hardness of computing quantum invariants is preserved under specific restrictions.
Study on random surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds, focusing on geometric and topological properties.
problem Distribution of nearly geodesic surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Invariant measures on the Grassmann bundle G(M) derived from limits of random minimal surfaces.
result Topological limiting measures are totally scarring if M contains a totally geodesic subsurface, while geometrical limiting measures are not.
Turaev transformed knot theory and 3-manifold invariants.
problem Understanding knots and links invariants of 3-manifolds.
method Classical topology techniques and quantum topology.
result Introduced new ideas and tools in knot theory and 3-manifold invariants.
The paper studies Morse flows on 3-manifold boundaries with fixed points.
problem Classifying Morse flows on 3-manifold boundaries.
method Constructing a Pr-diagram as a topological invariant.
result A complete topological invariant of Morse flows on 3-manifold boundaries.
Groups can act on 3-manifolds if their Cayley complex can embed in specific types of 3-manifolds.
problem Understanding group actions on 3-manifolds.
method Proving groups admit actions on 3-manifolds if their Cayley complexes can embed in specific 3-manifolds.
result Groups with embeddable Cayley complexes can act on four specific types of 3-manifolds.
Study angle structures on pseudo 3-manifolds, proving existence for some cases.
problem Determining if hyperbolic 3-manifolds can have angle structures.
method Examined triangulated pseudo 3-manifolds with area-curvature angle structures, establishing sufficient and necessary conditions.
result Compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds with totally geodesic boundary can have angle structures.
Algorithm calculates quantum invariants of 3-manifolds with polynomial time complexity.
problem Computing quantum invariants from Tambara-Yamagami categories is #P-hard.
method Fixed-parameter tractable algorithm with first Betti number as parameter.
result Existence of FPT algorithm for Tambara-Yamagami invariants.
Improved lower bounds on volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds with specific topologies.
problem Finding lower bounds on volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds with certain topological properties.
method Combining results from earlier papers, using two disjoint muffins, and applying the log(2k-1) theorem.
result Improved lower bounds on volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, especially those with geodesic boundaries.
Random 3-manifolds have no totally geodesic submanifolds.
problem Existence of totally geodesic submanifolds in random 3-manifolds.
method Analysis of metrics on compact 3-manifolds in Cq-topology. result The set of such metrics contains an open and dense set in the Cq-topology for any q≥3. 3-manifolds with torsion homology expand in all dimensions.
problem Constructing 3-manifolds with good expansion properties.
method Constructing 3-manifolds with specific homological properties and demonstrating their expansion.
result 3-manifolds with torsion homology expand in all dimensions.
We introduce the notion of a topological geodesic in a 3-manifold. Under suitable hypotheses on the fundamental group, for instance word-hyperbolicity, topological geodesics are shown to have the useful properties of, and play the same role in several applications as, geodesics in negatively curved spaces. This permits…
Summing over 3-manifolds using TQFT partition functions.
problem Summing over all 3-manifolds with fixed boundary.
method Rewriting the sum over 3-manifolds as a sum over homology groups, using TQFT partition functions and topological boundary conditions.
result Existence of a distribution of 2d TQFTs whose ensemble average equals the sum over 3-manifolds.
Proves 3-manifold groups uniquely identify hyperbolic bundles.
problem Identifying hyperbolic 3-manifold groups from their finite quotients.
method Upgraded Liu's result to detect fiber type via profinite completion.
result Proves hyperbolic bundles are distinguished by their profinite completions.
Study classifies 3-manifolds with constant Ricci eigenvalues.
problem Classifying 3-manifolds with specific Ricci eigenvalues.
method Analyzes complete Riemannian 3-manifolds with constant eigenvalues (λ, λ, 0). Uses topological and geometric methods.
result Classifies the topology of these manifolds, showing they have a free fundamental group if non-trivial and every free group is obtained.
The paper classifies self-replicating 3D shapes using algebraic models.
problem Understanding self-replicating 3D shapes.
method Using idempotents in the (2+1)-cobordism category to classify 3-manifolds.
result A classification theorem for self-replicating 3-manifolds.
In graph theory, as well as in 3-manifold topology, there exist several width-type parameters to describe how "simple" or "thin" a given graph or 3-manifold is. These parameters, such as pathwidth or treewidth for graphs, or the concept of thin position for 3-manifolds, play an important role when studying algorithmic …
The disk complex of a surface in a 3-manifold is used to define its {\it topological index}. Surfaces with well-defined topological index are shown to generalize well-known classes, such as incompressible, strongly irreducible, and critical surfaces. The main result is that one may always isotope a surface H with top…
Unified framework for 3D and 4D manifold and knot theory.
problem Unified understanding of manifold and knot theory.
method Unified correspondence between different subfields of low-dimensional topology.
result Unified algebraic manifestations of 3D and 4D manifold and knot theory.
New families of embeddings in 4-manifolds, topologically trivial but smoothly non-trivial.
problem Constructing non-trivial smooth embeddings of 3-manifolds in 4-manifolds.
method Parameterized families of embeddings, using high-dimensional spheres.
result Embeddings of homology spheres and any 3-manifold in blown-up K3 surfaces.
We show that, up to topological conjugation, the equivalence class of a Morse-Smale diffeomorphism without heteroclinic curves on 3-manifold is completely defined by an em- bedding of two-dimensional stable and unstable heteroclinic laminations to a characteristic space.
This paper provides a topological interpretation for number theoretic properties of quantum invariants of 3-manifolds. In particular, it is shown that the p-adic valuation of the quantum SO(3)-invariant of a 3-manifold M, for odd primes p, is bounded below by a linear function of the mod p first betti number of M. Shar…
New proofs of h-principles in contact 3-manifolds.
problem Characterizing contractible bypasses in contact 3-manifolds.
method Topological characterization and disjoint bypass construction.
result New proofs of h-principles in overtwisted contact 3-manifolds.
The absolute Galois group of 3-manifolds determines their structure up to homeomorphism.
problem Determining the structure of 3-manifolds using their absolute Galois groups.
method Defined a relative absolute Galois group for 3-manifolds and used Chebotarev density properties and Hilbert ramification theory.
result Two branched covers of the three-sphere over a stably Chebotarev link are homeomorphic if and only if their absolute Galois groups are isomorphic.
Schwarzschild 3-manifold stability proven for 3D Penrose inequality.
problem Stability of the Schwarzschild 3-manifold in the context of the 3D Riemannian Penrose inequality.
method Pointed measured Gromov-Hausdorff topology, negligible domains and boundary area perturbations.
result Schwarzschild 3-manifold stability proven for 3D Penrose inequality.
Quantum invariants of 3-manifolds and links reviewed, with connections to other topological invariants.
problem Quantum invariants of 3-manifolds and links.
method Review of recent developments and connections to other invariants.
result Rich features of quantum invariants like quantum modularity and Verma module structures.
We investigate the complexity of finding an embedded non-orientable surface of Euler genus g in a triangulated 3-manifold. This problem occurs both as a natural question in low-dimensional topology, and as a first non-trivial instance of embeddability of complexes into 3-manifolds. We prove that the problem is NP…
We prove that for every closed, connected, orientable, irreducible 3-manifold, there exists an alternating group A_n which is not the topological symmetry group of any graph embedded in the manifold. We also show that for every finite group G, there is an embedding Γ of some graph in a hyperbolic rational homology 3-sp…
A homotopy equivalence between a hyperbolic 3-manifold and a closed irreducible 3-manifold is homotopic to a homeomorphsim provided the hyperbolic manifold satisfies a purely geometric condition. There are no known examples of hyperbolic 3-manifolds which do not satisfy this condition.