New theory proves infinite homology 3-spheres in homology 4-spheres.
problem Existence of homology 3-spheres in homology 4-spheres.
method Diagrammatics of surface cross sections, Taubes' work.
result Infinite number of homology 3-spheres in homology 4-spheres.
We show that among Seifert fibered integer homology spheres, Poincare sphere (with either orientation) is the only non-trivial example which has trivial Heegaard Floer homology. Together with an earlier result, this shows that if an integer homology sphere has trivial Heegaard Floer homology, then it is a connected sum…
Study improves Heegaard Floer homology relations for knots in homology spheres.
problem Improving relations in Heegaard Floer homology for knots in homology spheres.
method Proved inequality for d-invariants, used reduced Floer homology rank relations.
result Degree one maps between aspherical Seifert homology spheres are homotopic to homeomorphisms if Heegaard Floer homologies are isomorphic.
Surgery on knots can produce non-separating spheres, using Heegaard Floer homology.
problem Conditions for surgery on knots to produce non-separating spheres.
method Heegaard Floer homology
result Sufficient conditions for a knot to be unknotted.
Surgery obstructions extended to integer homology spheres using Heegaard Floer homology.
problem Obstructing knots in integer homology spheres using surgery.
method Extending Heegaard Floer homology obstructions to all integer homology spheres for both positive and negative surgeries.
result Deduced a lower bound on b2(W) for smooth cobordism between integer homology spheres. New rational homology 3-spheres found that can't bound definite 4-manifolds.
problem Finding rational homology 3-spheres that can't bound simply connected definite 4-manifolds.
method Constructing infinite families of irreducible rational homology 3-spheres.
result Infinite families of rational homology 3-spheres that are homology cobordant to given examples but can't bound simply connected definite 4-manifolds.
Paper proves a conjecture about a Heegaard Floer invariant for certain rational homology spheres.
problem Proving a conjecture about the Heegaard Floer d-invariant for negative-definite plumbed rational homology spheres.
method Using Zemke's isomorphism between lattice and Heegaard Floer homology, the paper proves Némethi's conjecture.
result The conjecture about the Heegaard Floer d-invariant for negative-definite plumbed rational homology spheres is proven.
Study of knots in homology spheres and their concordance properties.
problem When can knots in homology spheres be reduced to slice knots?
method Analyzes concordance and crossing changes in homology spheres.
result Knots in homology spheres are nullhomotopic in a smooth homology ball if and only if they are concordant to a smoothly slice knot.
The paper constructs new rational homology 3-spheres bounding rational homology 4-balls.
problem Constructing rational homology 3-spheres that bound rational homology 4-balls.
method Exploring plumbed 3-manifolds and using rational homology circles.
result Infinite families of rational homology 3-spheres that bound rational homology 4-balls.
Study surgery obstructions for Seifert fibered homology spheres using knot and Heegaard Floer homology.
problem Determining which knots can yield Seifert fibered homology spheres.
method Utilized Heegaard Floer and Knot Floer homology, along with the mapping cone formula, to find obstructions.
result Showed that genus one knots cannot yield Seifert fibered homology spheres with six or more singular fibers.
New links split by integer homology spheres but not by others.
problem Characterizing links split by integer homology spheres.
method Constructing specific links and homology spheres.
result Infinite families of links and homology spheres split by specific ones but not by others.
New families of Brieskorn spheres bound rational homology balls.
problem Identifying new Brieskorn spheres that bound rational homology balls.
method Using techniques from Akbulut and Larson's work, we present new families of Brieskorn spheres.
result We discover new infinite families of Brieskorn spheres that non-trivially bound rational homology balls.
For smooth embeddings of an integral homology 3-sphere in the 6-sphere, we define an integer invariant in terms of their Seifert surfaces. Our invariant gives a bijection between the set of smooth isotopy classes of such embeddings and the integers. It also gives rise to a complete invariant for homology bordism classe…
We show that if a prime homology sphere has the same Floer homology as the standard three-sphere, it does not contain any incompressible tori.
We give the definition of the Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology group for a homology 3-sphere. Its Euler characteristic number is a Casson-type invariant. For a four-manifold with boundary a homology sphere, a relative Seiberg-Witten invariant is defined taking values in the Seiberg-Witten-Floer homology group, these relat…
We introduce a notion of complexity for Sefiert homology spheres by establishing a correspondence between lattice point counting in tethrahedra and the Heegaard-Floer homology. This complexity turns out to be equivalent to a version of Casson invariant and it is monotone under a natural partial order in the set of Seif…
New homology spheres found with special knots.
problem Finding homology spheres with specific knots.
method Infinitely many homology spheres constructed.
result Two distinct knots with special surgeries found.
This paper concerns the problem of existence of taut foliations among 3-manifolds. Since the contribution of David Gabai, we know that closed 3-manifolds with non-trivial second homology group admit a taut foliations. The essential part of this paper focuses on Seifert fibered homology 3-spheres. The result is quite di…
The paper examines lattice homology invariants of Seifert homology spheres.
problem Understanding homology cobordism invariants for Seifert fibered integral homology 3-spheres.
method Utilizes lattice homology and Heegaard Floer homology to study invariants.
result Reproves and extends the invariance of Seifert homology spheres' d-invariants and maximal monotone subroots. Proves complex homology three-spheres can be bounded by many handles.
problem Complex homology three-spheres and their bounding four-manifolds.
method Uses homology cobordism invariant Γ from instanton Floer homology.
result Any bounding four-manifold must be built out of many handles.
Study Brieskorn spheres using Floer homology, generating infinite rank summands in homology cobordism.
problem Computing Heegaard Floer homologies of Brieskorn spheres.
method Floer theoretic invariants of Dai, Hom, Stoffregen, and Truong.
result Brieskorn spheres generate infinite rank summands in the homology cobordism group.
The article provides formulas for homological blocks of Seifert fibered homology 3-spheres.
problem Calculating Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants for Seifert fibered homology 3-spheres.
method Explicit modular transformation formulas of homological blocks.
result New proof of Witten asymptotic conjecture for Seifert fibered homology 3-spheres.
The cosmetic surgery conjecture is a longstanding conjecture in 3-manifold theory. We present a theorem about exceptional cosmetic surgery for homology spheres. Along the way we prove that if the surgery is not a small seifert Z/2Z-homology sphere or a toroidal irreducible non-Seifert surgery then t…
Researchers found all simply connected rational 5-spheres with Sasaki-Einstein metrics.
problem Identifying rational homology 5-spheres with Sasaki-Einstein metrics.
method Comprehensive analysis of simply connected rational homology 5-spheres.
result Determination of which simply connected rational homology 5-spheres admit Sasaki-Einstein metrics.
We give examples of non-fibered hyperbolic knot complements in homology spheres that are not commensurable to fibered knot complements in homology spheres. In fact, we give many examples of knot complements in homology spheres with the property that every commensurable knot complement in a homology sphere has non-monic…
In this paper we demonstrate the existence of Sasakian-Einstein structures on certain 2-connected rational homology 7-spheres. These appear to be the first non-regular examples of Sasakian-Einstein metrics on simply connected rational homology spheres. We also briefly describe the rational homology 7-spheres that admit…
The paper constructs homology spheres with large correction terms.
problem Finding homology spheres with large correction terms.
method Constructing families of homology spheres that bound 4-manifolds with intersection forms isomorphic to -E8.
result Homology spheres have arbitrarily large correction terms.
Homology handles with trivial Alexander polynomial bound a 3D sphere.
problem Understanding when homology handles bound 3D spheres.
method Using Freedman and Quinn's result for Z-homology 3-spheres. result A distinguished homology handle with trivial Alexander polynomial bounds a homology S1imesD3. We show that the integer homology sphere obtained by splicing two nontrivial knot complements in integer homology sphere L-spaces has Heegaard Floer homology rank strictly greater than one. In particular, splicing the complements of nontrivial knots in the 3-sphere never produces an L-space. The proof uses bordered Flo…
Study shows knots in homology spheres can be topologically equivalent to those in S3.
problem Distinguishing knots in homology spheres from those in S3. method Whitney tower filtration of concordance and solvable filtration.
result Every knot (or link) in a homology sphere is equivalent to a knot (or link) in S3 modulo any term in the Whitney tower filtration. We show that a graph manifold which is a Z-homology 3-sphere not homeomorphic to either the 3-sphere or the Poincaré homology 3-sphere admits a horizontal foliation. This combines with known results to show that the conditions of not being an L-space, of having a left-orderable fundamental group, and of admitting a co-…
Study cosmetic surgeries on knots in homology spheres using Casson-Walker invariant.
problem Cosmetic surgeries on knots in homology spheres and their constraints.
method Rational surgery formula of the Casson-Walker invariant for 2-component links.
result Constraints on knots and surgery slopes for cosmetic surgeries.
It is known by the author that there exist 20 families of Dehn surgeries in the Poincaré homology sphere yielding lens spaces. In this paper, we give the concrete knot diagrams of the families and extend them to families of lens space surgeries in Brieskorn homology spheres. We illustrate families of lens space surgeri…
The paper develops a method to construct left-orders on homology spheres from Dehn fillings.
problem Left-orderability of homology spheres obtained by Dehn filling.
method Holonomy extension loci of rational homology solid tori to study left-orderability.
result Intervals of Dehn fillings with left-orderable fundamental group.
Paper studies spectral invariants and monopole Floer homology for rational homology three-spheres.
problem Tackles the existence of positive scalar curvature metrics on ribbon homology cobordisms.
method Defines an R-filtration on the equivariant complex of monopole Floer homology via Chern-Simons-Dirac functional, leading to a spectral invariant.
result Shows that the spectral invariant provides an obstruction to the existence of positive scalar curvature metrics on ribbon homology cobordisms.
New examples of Kirby-Ramanujam spheres found, leading to contractible 4-manifolds.
problem Finding new examples of Kirby-Ramanujam spheres.
method Tracing the initial steps of Kirby's example and providing additional examples, showing diffeomorphisms and linear independence.
result Found three infinite families of Kirby-Ramanujam spheres that bound contractible 4-manifolds.
We show how the periodicity of a homology sphere is reflected in the Reshetikhin-Turaev-Witten invariants of the manifold. These yield a criterion for the periodicity of a homology sphere.
Hedden defined two knots in each lens space that, through analogies with their knot Floer homology and doubly pointed Heegaard diagrams of genus one, may be viewed as generalizations of the two trefoils in S^3. Rasmussen shows that when the `left-handed' one is in the homology class of the dual to a Berge knot of type …
Proves a conjecture about knotted spheres using plane Floer homology.
problem Proving a conjecture about knotted spheres.
method Using Daemi's plane Floer homology as a key tool.
result Proves a conjecture regarding the odd Khovanov cobordism maps associated to knotted spheres.
Study shows knots in Poincaré sphere can't be 'cosmetically' altered.
problem Cosmetic surgeries on knots in the Poincaré homology sphere.
method Proof that essential knots cannot undergo purely cosmetic surgeries.
result Essential knots in the Poincaré sphere cannot be 'cosmetically' altered.
New Sasaki-Einstein 7-spheres found via Berglund-Hübsch transpose.
problem Finding new Sasaki-Einstein 7-spheres.
method Berglund-Hübsch transpose rule applied to Kähler-Einstein 3-folds.
result 75 new Sasaki-Einstein rational homology 7-spheres discovered.
A special knot in the Poincaré sphere leads to a unique connected sum of lens spaces.
problem Understanding the unique connected sum of lens spaces formed by a special knot in the Poincaré sphere.
method Analyzing the Seifert fibering and Dehn surgery of the Poincaré homology sphere.
result The only knot in the Poincaré sphere with a surgery to a connected sum of more than two lens spaces is the one mentioned.
Proves SU(2) representations for certain 3-spheres with embedded tori.
problem Characterizing SU(2) representations for specific 3-manifolds.
method Instanton Floer homology, surgery exact triangle, holonomy perturbations, non-vanishing results, and cable surgery results.
result Fundamental groups of certain 3-manifolds admit irreducible SU(2) representations.
Even-dimensional simply connected manifolds that are rational homology spheres and double disk bundles are homeomorphic to spheres.
problem Characterizing manifolds that are both rational homology spheres and double disk bundles.
method Analyzing the structure of manifolds as unions of disk bundles and using properties of rational homology and cohomology.
result Even-dimensional simply connected manifolds that are rational homology spheres and double disk bundles are homeomorphic to spheres.
Manolescu correction terms are numerical invariants of homology three-spheres arising from Pin(2)-equivariant Seiberg-Witten theory that contain information about homology cobordism. We discuss several constraints on these invariants for homology spheres obtained by Dehn surgery on a knot in the three-sphere…
A theory of signatures for odd-dimensional links in rational homology spheres is studied via their generalized Seifert surfaces. The jump functions of signatures are shown invariant under appropriately generalized concordance and a special care is given to accommodate 1-dimensional links with mutual linking. Furthermor…
Identifies a mod-p triple cup product for rational homology 3-spheres with specific first homology.
problem Locally flat embeddings in S4 for rational homology 3-spheres method Using triple torsion linking form and torsion-linking duality
result Identifies the mod-p triple cup product for specific rational homology 3-spheres Let K denote a knot inside the homology sphere Y. The zero-framed longitude of K gives the complement of K in Y the structure of a bordered three-manifold, which may be denoted by Y(K). We compute the quasi-isomorphism type of the bordered Floer complex of Y(K) in terms of the knot Floer complex associate…