Study finds the order of Dehn twists in various groups.
problem Determining the order of Dehn twists in different topological groups.
method Analyzing the specific groups mentioned in the abstract.
result The order of Dehn twists was calculated in the specified groups.
Study connects surface twists to curve invariants.
problem Understanding fractional Dehn twists on Riemann surfaces.
method Characterization of pseudo-periodic maps and bounds on fractional twists.
result Established relationship between twists and curve invariants.
Paper examines Dehn twists on non-orientable surfaces and their limitations.
problem Limitations of generating Dehn twists on non-orientable surfaces.
method Analyzes the level 2 mapping class group of non-orientable surfaces and their subgroups.
result Dehn twist subgroup of M2(Ng) cannot be generated by squares of Dehn twists about non-separating curves. Study of Dehn twists in free groups generates right-angled Artin groups.
problem Understanding dynamics of Dehn twists in free groups.
method Geometry of spheres, tori, and curves in a doubled handlebody; analysis of compatibility conditions.
result Sufficiently large powers of Dehn twists generate right-angled Artin groups.
The paper explores methods to decompose periodic maps into Dehn twists.
problem Factoring periodic maps into Dehn twists.
method Various methods for factoring periodic mapping classes into Dehn twists, up to conjugacy.
result Existence of conjugates of periodic maps whose product is pseudo-Anosov.
It is proved that the stable commutator length of a Dehn twist in the mapping class group is positive and the tenth power of a Dehn twist about a nonseparating simple closed curve is a product of two commutators. As an application a new proof of the fact that the growth rate of a Dehn twist is linear is given.
Generates spin structure stabilizers using Dehn twists.
problem Determining generating sets for spin structure stabilizers.
method Using Dehn twists on specific curves.
result Explicit generating sets for stabilizers of spin structures.
Calculates Dehn twist actions on conformal blocks for modular categories.
problem Order of Dehn twists on spaces of conformal blocks.
method Quantum representations of mapping class groups, ribbon twists, monoidal powers.
result Order of Dehn twists generalizes previous results for small quantum group.
The paper uses Floer homology to study twist coefficients and their behavior after capping off.
problem Behavior of twist coefficients after capping off a boundary component.
method Heegaard Floer homology to constrain twist coefficients.
result Results about fractional Dehn twists and Floer homology of cyclic branched covers.
The generalized Dehn twist along a closed curve in an oriented surface is an algebraic construction which involves intersections of loops in the surface. It is defined as an automorphism of the Malcev completion of the fundamental group of the surface. As the name suggests, for the case where the curve has no self-inte…
We construct nontrivial roots of Dehn twists about nonseparating curves.
We give a small generating set for the twist subgroup of the mapping class group of a non-orientable surface by Dehn twists. The difference between the number of the generators and a lower bound of numbers of generators for the twist subgroup by Dehn twists is one. The lower bounds is obtained from an argument of Hiros…
Study shows Dehn twist coefficients are consistent across different actions on surfaces.
problem Consistency of fractional Dehn twist coefficients under various actions.
method Analyzes left orderings of mapping class groups and uses cofinality properties.
result Fractional Dehn twist coefficients are independent of the underlying action for surfaces with genus > 1.
Boundary Dehn twists become trivial after abelianization.
problem Understanding the behavior of boundary Dehn twists in smooth mapping classes.
method Constructing diffeomorphisms and showing commutators represent boundary Dehn twists.
result Boundary Dehn twists become trivial after abelianization.
We study subgroups of the mapping class group of the torus generated by powers generated by powers of Dehn twists. We give a criterion to show when a collection of powers Dehn twists generates a free group using the ping pong lemma. We show that the subgroup generated by three uniform powers of Dehn twists can be eithe…
Study shows exotic Dehn twists on certain 3-sphere fillings.
problem Extending group actions from boundaries to interiors of 4-manifolds.
method Analyzing Dehn twists on Seifert homology spheres and their fillings.
result Dehn twists on certain fillings are infinite order exotic.
Study on four-dimensional Dehn twists and Milnor fibrations, revealing new phenomena.
problem Understanding the monodromy of Milnor fibrations of surface singularities.
method Using Seiberg-Witten invariant and monopole Floer homology.
result Infinite order non-triviality results for boundary Dehn twists.
The study examines Heegaard splittings defined by Dehn twists and finds hyperbolic metrics with specific geodesic lengths.
problem Characterizing Heegaard splittings defined by Dehn twists and their geometric properties.
method Examining Heegaard splittings of genus g≥3 defined by the n-th power of a Dehn twist along a pared acylindrical curve. result For n≥14, the Heegaard splitting has a hyperbolic metric with a closed geodesic of length between 0.7/(n2g2) and 34.3/n2. Presentations for involutions on non-orientable surfaces up to genus 5.
problem Representing involutions on non-orientable surfaces.
method Dehn twist--crosscap slide presentations.
result Presentations for involutions on non-orientable surfaces of genera up to 5.
Proved boundary Dehn twist is exotic for Milnor fibers with specific conditions.
problem Characterizing exotic diffeomorphisms on Milnor fibers.
method Compared family relative Bauer--Furuta invariants of mapping tori.
result Boundary Dehn twist is an exotic diffeomorphism under given conditions.
Margalit and Schleimer constructed nontrivial roots of the Dehn twist about a nonseparating curve. We prove that the conjugacy classes of roots of the Dehn twist about a nonseparating curve correspond to the conjugacy classes of periodic maps with certain conditions. Futhermore, we give data set which determine the con…
By using a notion of a geometric Dehn twist in ♯k(S2×S1), we prove that when projections of two Z-splittings to the free factor complex are far enough from each other in the free factor complex, Dehn twist automorphisms corresponding to the Z-splittings generate a free group of ra…
Given a 3-holed sphere decomposition of an orientable closed surface, it is shown that each orientation preserving homeomorphism of the surface is isotopic to a composition AB where A is a product of positive Dehn twists and B is a product of negative Dehn twists on the decomposition curves.
New relation found in 4D symplectic mapping class group.
problem Relation between Dehn twists in symplectic 4-manifolds.
method Holomorphic curve techniques, symplectic isotopy problem solution.
result Relation between two products of Dehn twists.
We establish a relationship between Heegaard Floer homology and the fractional Dehn twist coefficient of surface automorphisms. Specifically, we show that the rank of the Heegaard Floer homology of a 3-manifold bounds the absolute value of the fractional Dehn twist coefficient of the monodromy of any of its open book d…
Boundary Dehn twist on K3 surfaces becomes trivial after abelianization.
problem Understanding the boundary Dehn twist on K3 surfaces. method Obstruction from Baraglia-Konno and global Torelli theorem of K3 surfaces. result Boundary Dehn twist becomes trivial after abelianization.
For any unoriented loop on a compact connected oriented surface with one boundary component, the generalized Dehn twist along the loop is defined as an automorphism of the completed group ring of the fundamental group of the surface. If the loop is simple, this is the usual right handed Dehn twist, in particular realiz…
Sharp lower bounds for modular invariants and Dehn twist coefficients in genus 2 and 3.
problem Finding sharp lower bounds for modular invariants and Dehn twist coefficients.
method Analyzing the relation between fractional Dehn twists and modular invariants, classifying pseudo-periodic maps, and proving rigidity properties.
result Sharp lower bounds for modular invariants and Dehn twist coefficients in genus 2 and 3.
Let Ngk be a nonorientable surface of genus \ g≥5 \ with \ k-punctures. In this note, we will give an algebraic characterization of a Dehn twist about a simple closed curve on Ngk. Along the way, we will fill some little gaps in the proofs of some theorems in \cite{A} and \cite{I1} giving algebraic char…
We compute the Reidemeister torsion of the complement of a twist knot in S3 and that of the 3-manifold obtained by a Dehn surgery on a twist knot.
We classify all the exceptional Dehn surgeries on the minimally twisted chain links with six and seven components.
Study detects if a circuit bounds a disc using curve intersections.
problem Determining if a circuit bounds an embedded disc.
method Analyzing the group generated by Dehn twists about curves in a circuit.
result Cycle relation between Dehn twists detects disc-boundability.
Study of hyperbolic 3-manifolds via fractional Dehn twists and cusp geometry.
problem Understanding the geometry of fibred hyperbolic 3-manifolds via combinatorial data.
method Relating Euclidean cusp geometry to fractional Dehn twist coefficients of monodromies.
result Uniform bounds on fractional Dehn twist coefficients for certain open book decompositions.
Study of Dehn twists on a disc with 3 points, solving conjugacy problem.
problem Solving conjugacy problem for Dehn twists on a disc with 3 marked points.
method Explicit description of orbits of Dehn twists on the Dynnikov plane, relating to homology dynamics.
result Explicit solution to conjugacy problem for Dehn twists, presenting an untwisting algorithm.
Study shows Dehn twists on certain 4-manifolds cannot be realized by finite order diffeomorphisms.
problem Realization of Dehn twists as finite order diffeomorphisms on spin 4-manifolds.
method Use Y. Kato's 10/8-type inequality for involutions and its refinement.
result Dehn twists about specific spheres in certain 4-manifolds are not homotopic to finite order diffeomorphisms.
Johnson kernel generated by specific Dehn twists on surfaces.
problem Identifying the generating set of Johnson kernel for surfaces.
method Analyzing Dehn twists on specific types of surfaces.
result Johnson kernel generated by Dehn twists on specified surfaces.
A \textit{multicurve} $\C$ on a closed orientable surface is defined to be a finite collection of disjoint non-isotopic essential simple closed curves. The Dehn twist $t_{\C}$ about $\C$ is the product of the Dehn twists about the individual curves. In this paper, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the exi…
New invariant shows Dehn twist on connected sum of homology tori is not isotopic to identity.
problem Determining when Dehn twists on connected sums of homology tori are isotopic to identity.
method Generalized Pin(2)-equivariant family Bauer-Furuta invariant to nonsimply connected manifolds and constructed a refinement.
result Dehn twist on X1#X2 is not isotopic to identity if determinants r1,r2 are odd. We classify groups generated by powers of 2 Dehn twists which are 1) free or 2) have no ``unexpected'' reducible elements. We give some sufficient conditions in the case of groups generated by powers of more than two twists.
We introduce a notion of a Fox pairing in a group algebra and use Fox pairings to define automorphisms of the Malcev completions of groups. These automorphisms generalize to the algebraic setting the action of the Dehn twists in the group algebras of the fundamental groups of surfaces. This work is inspired by the Kawa…
Example of non-smooth isotopy using K3 surfaces.
problem Non-smooth isotopy examples in 4-manifolds.
method Dehn twist along a 3-sphere in K3 surfaces' connected sum.
result First example of self-diffeomorphisms isotopic to identity but not smoothly.
Growth rate of Dehn twist lattice points in Teichmüller space is slower than mapping class group lattice points.
problem Analyzing the growth rate of Dehn twist lattice points in Teichmüller space.
method Comparing growth rates of Dehn twist, mapping class group, and multi-twist lattice points.
result The growth rate of Dehn twist lattice points is coarsely asymptotic to $e^{ rac{h}{2}R}$, slower than the mapping class group.
The paper generalizes a result on smooth mapping class groups and proves a property of Dehn twists in 4-manifolds.
problem Properties of Dehn twists in smooth 4-manifolds.
method Generalization of a previous result and alternative proof of a consequence.
result Dehn twists along the boundary of simply-connected 4-manifolds are trivial after connected sums.
Paper studies involutions generating the twist subgroup of nonorientable surfaces.
problem Generating the twist subgroup by involutions on nonorientable surfaces.
method Analyzes involutions to find the smallest generating sets.
result Provides generating sets of involutions with minimal elements.
Characterizes braid types and estimates twist coefficients.
problem Understanding braid types and their properties.
method Birman-Ko-Lee left canonical form of braids.
result Characterization of almost strongly quasipositive braids and estimates of fractional Dehn twist coefficient.
We give new upper bounds on the stable commutator lengths of Dehn twists in mapping class groups and new lower bounds on the stable commutator lengths of Dehn twists in hyperelliptic mapping class groups. In particular, we show that the stable commutator lengths of Dehn twists about a nonseparating and a separating cur…
This paper computes fixed point Floer cohomology for Dehn twists on surfaces.
problem Computing fixed point Floer cohomology for Dehn twists.
method Developed tools for computing fixed point Floer cohomology and product for Dehn twists in all dimensions.
result Splitting of the product and differential into local and Morse-theoretic contributions.
Solves infinite family of cubic polynomial problems.
problem Infinite family of twisted polynomial problems.
method Using Dehn twists and 9-adic expansions.
result Result of twisting depends on 9-adic expansion.