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Proves involutions on Right-angled Coxeter groups without fixed points.

We show that Bordered Heegaard Floer invariant $\widehat{CFD}$ of a knot complement in $S^3$ is invariant under the elliptic involution on its boundary.

New non-kinetic actions on four-manifolds discovered.

The paper develops a new theory for knots and 3-manifolds with involutions.

Real bordered Floer homology computes 3-manifolds with involution.

We show that a certain involution on the well known homology sphere (the boundary of the Mazur manifold) induces a nontrivial homomorphism on its Heegard-Floer homology groups (recently defined by Ozsvath and Szabo). We discuss a possible application of this to constructing exotic smooth structures on 4-manifolds.

Develops Floer cohomology for 4-manifolds with involutions and links.

It is known that every exotic smooth structure on a simply connected closed 4-manifold is determined by a codimention zero compact contractible Stein submanifold and an involution on its boundary. Such a pair is called a cork. In this paper, we construct infinitely many knotted imbeddings of corks in 4-manifolds such t…

New invariants from Seiberg-Witten theory for 3-spheres with involution.

Study inradius collapsed manifolds with lower Ricci curvature bounds, proving properties of their limits.

Newlander-Nirenberg theorem extended to complex b-manifolds.

Method constructs spirals with given tangents and curvatures.

We generalize McShane's identity for the length series of simple closed geodesics on a cusped hyperbolic surface to hyperbolic cone-surfaces (with all cone angles $\le π$), possibly with cusps and/or geodesic boundary. In particular, by applying the generalized identity to the orbifolds obtained from taking the quotien…

A recent anomaly computation of Horava and Witten is proved and generalized in the form of two index theorems in odd dimensions. Theorem A is a fixed point formula for orientation-reversing involutions. Theorem B is an index theorem for manifolds with boundary using local boundary conditions. Both hold for families of …

We consider pairs (X,Y) where X is a compact, locally CAT(-1) space, and Y is a totally geodesic subspace. The inclusion induces an embedding of the boundaries at infinity of the universal covers; we focus on the case where these are spheres whose dimensions differ by 2. We show that if the embedding is tame, then it i…

Study equivariant 4-genus of knots in symmetric 4-manifolds.

New non-cobordant hyperbolic manifolds found in certain dimensions.

Study $h$-cobordisms of complexity 2 in 5D, finding obstructions and examples.

Let M and N be topological spaces such that M admits a free involution $\τ$. A homotopy class $β$ $\in$ [M, N ] is said to have the Borsuk-Ulam property with respect to $\τ$ if for every representative map f : M $\rightarrow$ N of $β$, there exists a point x $\in$ M such that f ($\τ$ (x)) = f (x). In the case where M i…

A real 3- or 4-manifold has by definition an orientation preserving smooth involution acting on it. We consider Lefschetz fibrations of 4-dimensional manifolds-with-boundary and open book decompositions on their boundary in the existence of a real structure. We prove that there is a real open book which cannot be fille…

Grafting a measured lamination on a hyperbolic surface defines a self-map of Teichmuller space, which is a homeomorphism by a result of Scannell and Wolf. In this paper we study the large-scale behavior of pruning, which is the inverse of grafting. Specifically, for each conformal structure $X \in \T(S)$, pruning $X$ g…

Every exotic pair in 4-dimension is obtained each other by twisting a {\it cork} or {\it plug} which are codimension 0 submanifolds embedded in the 4-manifolds. The twist was an involution on the boundary of the submanifold. We define cork (or plug) with order $p\in {\Bbb N}\cup \{\infty\}$ and show there exists a plug…

Given two unitary involutions $σ_{1}$ and $σ_{2}$ satisfying $G σ_{i} = - σ_{i} G$ on $ker B$ on a compact manifold with cylindrical end, M. Lesch, K. Wojciechowski ([LW]) and W. Müller ([M]) established the formula describing the difference of two eta-invariants with the APS boundary conditions associated with $σ_{1}$…

A long-standing conjecture of Farrell and Zdravkovska and independently S.~T.~Yau states that every almost flat manifold is the boundary of a compact manifold. This paper gives a simple proof of this conjecture when the holonomy group is cyclic or quaternionic. The proof is based on the interaction between flat bundles…

Classifies involutions on spherical 3-manifolds.

Study classifies Calabi-Yau threefolds with non-Gorenstein involutions.

The study classifies manifolds realized as orbit spaces of non-free Z2^k actions.

The paper studies circular evolutes and involutes of framed curves in Euclidean space.

New formula for dual knots using involutions.

The study classifies involutions on del Pezzo surfaces.

Characterizes the Legendre involution on generic frontals.

The paper defines conditions for good involutions in generalized Alexander quandles.

Study proves naturality and functoriality in a type of Heegaard Floer homology.

The study proves symplectic quandles cannot have good involutions.

Classifies dissecting involutions on symmetric spaces.

Involutions generate mapping class groups of infinite surfaces.

Minimal involutions generate a subgroup of nonorientable surfaces.

Study exact surgery formula in involutive Heegaard Floer homology.

We study decompositions of complex hyperbolic isometries as products of involutions. We show that PU(2,1) has involution length 4 and commutator length 1, and that for all $n \geqslant 3$ PU($n$,1) has involution length at most 8.

Anti-symplectic involutions connect a sphere in a symplectic surface.

Real slices of parabolic opers on Riemann surfaces are studied.

Classifies periodic diffeomorphisms on surfaces commuting with specific involutions.

Computed involutive knot invariants for specific pretzel knots.

Paper studies involutions generating the twist subgroup of nonorientable surfaces.

Let $Σ_{g,b}$ denote a closed orientable surface of genus $g$ with $b$ punctures and let $\rm Mod(Σ_{\textit{g,b}})$ denote its mapping class group. In [Luo] Luo proved that if the genus is at least 3, $\rm Mod(Σ_{\textit{g,b}})$ is generated by involutions. He also asked if there exists a universal upper bound, indepe…

Presentations for involutions on non-orientable surfaces up to genus 5.

Three involutions generate the mapping class group for surfaces of genus 6 or more.

In this article, we classify all involutions on S^6 with 3-dimensional fixed point set. In particular, we discuss the relation between the classification of involutions with fixed point set a knotted 3-sphere and the classification of free involutions on homotopy CP^3's.