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The paper discusses conditions for gluing multiple Alexandrov spaces into an Alexandrov space.

Contact gluing maps are shown to be equivalent in sutured Floer homology.

The paper proves an asymptotic additivity of Turaev-Viro invariants for a family of 3-manifolds.

Survey on gluing constructions under lower curvature bounds.

Gluing theorem for collapsing warped-QAC Calabi-Yau manifolds verified.

The present article is the first in a series whose ultimate goal is to prove the Kotschick-Morgan conjecture concerning the wall-crossing formula for the Donaldson invariants of a four-manifold with b^+ = 1. The conjecture asserts that the wall-crossing terms due to changes in the metric depend at most on the homotopy …

The paper disproves the properness conjecture for higher-dimensional minimal hypersurfaces.

Paper compares absolute and relative real analytic torsion forms over fibrations.

We establish a link between the holomorphic derivatives of Thurston's hyperbolic gluing equations on an ideally triangulated finite volume hyperbolic 3-manifold and the cohomology of the sheaf of infinitesimal isometries. Moreover, we provide a geometric reformulation of the non-abelian Reidemeister torsion correspondi…

We give a partial characterization of bordered Floer homology in terms of sutured Floer homology. The bordered algebra and modules are direct sums of certain sutured Floer complexes. The algebra multiplication and algebra action correspond to a new gluing map on SFH. It is defined algebraically, and is a special case o…

Torus decomposition shows foliation detected slopes for glued knot manifolds.

The study resolves a conjecture about harmonic forms on compact manifolds.

New vacuum spacetimes without CMC Cauchy surfaces found.

Study Turaev-Viro invariants of 3-manifolds with toroidal boundary.

Study elliptic operators on glued manifolds, reducing to finite-dimensional systems.

Geometric model of unbounded sl3 laminations with tropical coordinates.

Using a ramified cover of the two-sphere by the torus, we prove a local optimal inequality between the diastole and the area on the two-sphere near a singular metric. This singular metric, made of two equilateral triangles glued along their boundary, has been conjectured by E. Calabi to achieve the best ratio area over…

New non-perturbative counterexamples to Min-Oo's Conjecture are created.

We analyze the indicial roots of the self-dual deformation complex on a cylinder $(\mathbb{R} \times Y^3, dt^2 + g_Y)$, where $Y^3$ is a space of constant curvature. An application is the optimal decay rate of solutions on a self-dual manifold with cylindrical ends having cross-section $Y^3$. We also resolve a conjectu…

The study finds infinitely many counterexamples to a generalized Double Soul Conjecture.

We give a brief summary of some of our work and our joint work with Stephan Tillmann on solving Thurston's equation and Haken equation on triangulated 3-manifolds in this paper. Several conjectures on the existence of solutions to Thurston's equation and Haken equation are made. Resolutions of these conjecture will lea…

It is known that a knot complement (minus two points) decomposes into ideal octahedra with respect to a given knot diagram. In this paper, we study the Ptolemy variety for such an octahedral decomposition in perspective of Thurston's gluing equation variety. More precisely, we compute explicit Ptolemy coordinates in te…

Let M_1 and M_2 be compact, orientable 3-manifolds with incompressible boundary, and M the manifold obtained by gluing with a homeomorphism $φ:\bdy M_1 \to \bdy M_2$. We analyze the relationship between the sets of low genus Heegaard splittings of M_1, M_2, and M, assuming the map φis "sufficiently complicated." This a…

Defines new Heegaard Floer invariants with actions of both E and F.

This paper uses combinatorial Ricci flow to tackle Thurston's triangulation conjecture.

Formula connects analytic torsion forms of fibration and its pieces.

This is the third installment in our series of articles (dg-ga/9712005, dg-ga/9710032) on the application of the PU(2) monopole equations to prove Witten's conjecture (hep-th/9411102) concerning the relation between the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants of smooth four-manifolds. The moduli space of solutions to t…

This article is a sequel to the book `Ricci Flow and the Poincare Conjecture' by the same authors. Using the main results of that book we establish the Geometrization Conjecture for all compact, orientable three-manifolds following the approach indicated by Perelman in his preprints on the subject. This approach is to …

Study on knots formed by gluing ellipses, defining gluing degree.

We propose a finite dimensional variational principle on triangulated 3-manifolds so that its critical points are related to solutions to Thurston's gluing equation and Haken's normal surface equation. The action functional is the volume. This is a generalization of an earlier program by Casson and Rivin for compact 3-…

We prove an analogue of the Kotschick-Morgan conjecture in the context of SO(3) monopoles, obtaining a formula relating the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants of smooth four-manifolds using the SO(3)-monopole cobordism. The main technical difficulty in the SO(3)-monopole program relating the Seiberg-Witten and Don…

The article confirms Thurston's conjecture for a specific class of 3-manifolds using combinatorial Ricci flow.

For simple and simply-connected complex algebraic group G, we conjecture the existence of a functor eta_G from the category of 2-bordisms to the category of holomorphic symplectic varieties with Hamiltonian action, such that gluing of boundaries corresponds to the holomorphic symplectic quotient with respect to the dia…

Paper excludes the lowest energy level as an accumulation point for harmonic maps into analytic manifolds.

Study geometry of surfaces glued along a curve.

Quantum trace map defines invariants for knots and links, confirming a length conjecture.

Paper glues characteristic data to Kerr spacetime, proving spacelike gluing.

We determine the adjoint trace field of gluings of general hyperbolic manifolds. This provides a new method to prove the nonarithmeticity of gluings, which can be applied to the classical construction of Gromov and Piatetski-Shapiro (and generalizations) as well as certain gluings of pieces of commensurable arithmetic …

We solve a conjecture of Morgan and Szabo (Embedded genus 2 surfaces in four-manifolds, Preprint) about the relationship of the basic classes of two four-manifolds $X_i$ of simple type with $b_1=0$, $b^+>1$, such that there are embedded Riemann surfaces of genus $g \geq 2$ and self-intersection zero (and representing o…

The Quantum Modularity Conjecture of Zagier predicts the existence of a formal power series with arithmetically interesting coefficients that appears in the asymptotics of the Kashaev invariant at each root of unity. Our goal is to construct a power series from a Neumann-Zagier datum (i.e., an ideal triangulation of th…

In this paper, we explore the theme of orbifold stratified spaces and establish a general criterion for them to be smooth orbifolds. This criterion utilizes the notion of linear stratification on the gluing bundles for the orbifold stratified spaces. We introduce a concept of good gluing structure to ensure a smooth st…

The paper constructs gluing maps for harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds.

Trisections are obtained by regluing surface-knots in 4-manifolds.

Researchers prove a nonlinear gluing theorem for gravitational fields near static backgrounds.

Formulae connect heat kernels on glued manifolds.

Solves C^3 null gluing problem for Einstein vacuum equations.

Paper solves Einstein vacuum equations gluing problem with applications.

We survey known (and unknown) results about the behavior of Heegaard genus of 3-manifolds constructed via various gluings. The constructions we consider are (1) gluing together two 3-manifolds with incompressible boundary, (2) gluing together the boundary components of surface times I, and (3) gluing a handlebody to th…