Study on knot 74 surgeries reveals infinite residue characteristics and infinite order points.
problem Arithmetic properties of Dehn surgery points on knot 74. method Analyzing the canonical component of the SL2(C)-character variety. result Infinite set of ramified places and infinite order points in the Mordell-Weil group.
CCA features from medical codes predict future surgeries.
problem Predicting future surgeries based on medical codes.
method Canonical correlation analysis applied to sequences of medical codes.
result CCA embeddings capture meaningful relationships among medical codes.
Smooth flows with surgery approximate weak mean curvature flows with spherical and neck-pinch singularities.
problem Approximating weak mean curvature flows with singularities using smooth flows.
method Combining Choi-Haslhofer-Hershkovits and Choi-Haslhofer-Hershkovits-White work on canonical neighbourhoods and barriers to flows with surgery.
result Smooth flows with surgery can approximate weak mean curvature flows with spherical and neck-pinch singularities.
Introduces integer-valued Heegaard Floer theory with canonical orientations.
problem Defining and proving properties of Heegaard Floer homology over integers.
method Using canonical orientations from coupled Spin structures, proving naturality and surgery exact triangle.
result Established integer-valued Heegaard Floer theory and proved its properties.
We introduce a surgery operation on symplectic manifolds called coisotropic Luttinger surgery, which generalizes Luttinger surgery on Lagrangian tori in symplectic 4-manifolds. We use it to produce infinitely many distinct symplectic non-Kahler 6-manifolds X with c1(X)=0 which are not of the form M×F for $…
The paper uses algebraic geometry tools to study knot invariants and Dehn surgeries.
problem Understanding algebraic and number theoretic properties of canonical components of character varieties.
method Utilizes quaternion Azumaya algebras and Brauer groups of curves over number fields.
result Constructs new knot invariants using algebraic geometry.
We prove that the canonical 4-dimensional surgery problems can be solved after passing to a double cover. This contrasts the long-standing conjecture about the validity of the topological surgery theorem for arbitrary fundamental groups (without passing to a cover). As a corollary, the surgery conjecture is reformulate…
Stein and Weinstein structures are described for disk cotangent bundles of surfaces.
problem Characterizing Stein and Weinstein structures on disk cotangent bundles.
method Using Legendrian handlebody diagrams and symplectic/contact mappings.
result The canonical contact structure on the unit cotangent bundle of S is obtained via surgery.
Topological 4-dimensional surgery is conjectured to fail, in general, for free fundamental groups. M. Freedman and P. Teichner have shown that surgery problems with an arbitrary fundamental group have a solution, provided they satisfy a certain condition on Dwyer's filtration on second homology. We give a new geometric…
Legendrian surgery describes canonical contact structures and calculates Gompf's θ-invariant.
problem Understanding canonical contact structures and their properties.
method Legendrian surgery and explicit formulas for Gompf's θ-invariant.
result Explicit description and closed-form formula for Gompf's θ-invariant.
In this paper, we construct smooth forward Ricci flow evolutions of singular initial metrics resulting from rotationally symmetric neckpinches on S^(n+1), without performing an intervening surgery. In the restrictive context of rotational symmetry, this construction gives evidence in favor of Perelman's hope for a "can…
We refine Matveev's result asserting that any two closed oriented 3-manifolds can be related by a sequence of borromean surgeries if and only if they have isomorphic first homology groups and linking pairings. Indeed, a borromean surgery induces a canonical isomorphism between the first homology groups of the involved …
Suppose that the 3-manifold M is given by integral surgery along a link L in S^3. In the following we construct a stable map from M to the plane, whose singular set is canonically oriented. We obtain upper bounds for the minimal numbers of crossings and non-simple singularities and of connected components of fibers of …
We describe Milnor open books and Legendrian surgery diagrams for canonical contact structures of links of some rational surface singularities. We also describe an infinite family of Milnor fillable contact 3-manifolds so that the Milnor genus (resp. Milnor norm) is strictly greater than the support genus (resp. suppor…
We introduce a homology surgery problem in dimension 3 which has the property that the vanishing of its algebraic obstruction leads to a canonical class of π-algebraically-split links in 3-manifolds with fundamental group π. Using this class of links, we define a theory of finite type invariants of 3-manifolds in such …
Rotationally invariant Ricci flows are constructed and shown to converge to spacetimes.
problem Constructing and understanding Ricci flows through surgery on rotationally invariant manifolds.
method Rotationally invariant Ricci flow through surgery, convergence to spacetimes, blowup rate analysis.
result Rotationally invariant Ricci flows converge to spacetimes with controlled curvature blowup.
Paper introduces a new method for controlled surgery obstructions.
problem Obtaining controlled surgery obstructions for maps between manifolds.
method Uses geometrically defined L-spectrum and homotopy theory.
result Explicitly describes the assembly map and canonical map.
This paper shows how pseudo-Anosov flows represent stable Hamiltonian classes and limits the ways 3-manifolds can be obtained from knots.
problem Understanding the canonical representatives of stable Hamiltonian classes and their implications for 3-manifolds.
method Explains the analogy between pseudo-Anosov flows and stable Hamiltonian classes and generalizes an argument to limit the ways 3-manifolds can be obtained from knots.
result There are finitely many pseudo-Anosov flows admitting positive Birkhoff sections on any given rational homology 3-sphere, and any 3-manifold can be obtained in at most finitely many ways as p/q surgery on a fibered hyperbolic knot in S3. Null Lagrangian-preserving surgeries are a generalization of the Garoufalidis and Rozansky null-moves, that these authors introduced to study the Kricker lift of the Kontsevich integral, in the setting of pairs (M,K) composed of a rational homology sphere M and a null-homologous knot K in M. They are defined as replace…
Proves metrics with positive intermediate Ricci curvature on complex manifolds.
problem Establishing metrics with positive intermediate Ricci curvature on complex manifolds.
method Canonical variation and surgery techniques.
result Existence of metrics with positive intermediate Ricci curvature on various examples.
Complex Monge-Ampère flows regularize initial conditions on Hermitian manifolds.
problem Regulating complex Monge-Ampère flows on Hermitian manifolds.
method Proving flows can start from arbitrary initial conditions with zero Lelong number, confirming a conjecture, and studying a generalized flow.
result Chern-Ricci flow performs a canonical surgical contraction on Hermitian manifolds.
New curvature condition preserves Ricci flow in higher dimensions, proving flow extension beyond singularities.
problem Proving Ricci flow extension in higher dimensions with curvature control.
method New curvature condition, neck-like curvature pinching estimate, surgery procedure.
result Proves flow extension beyond singularities in higher dimensions.
Ricci flow through singularities verified, with continuity and uniqueness proven.
problem Existence and uniqueness of Ricci flow through singularities.
method Continuous flow through surgery, uniqueness theorem.
result Existence and uniqueness of Ricci flow through singularities.
The paper classifies manifolds with positive isotropic curvature using Ricci flow.
problem Classifying compact manifolds with positive isotropic curvature.
method Ricci flow with surgery on manifolds with positive isotropic curvature.
result Topological classification of manifolds with positive isotropic curvature.
A long-standing conjecture due to Michael Freedman asserts that the 4-dimensional topological surgery conjecture fails for non-abelian free groups, or equivalently that a family of canonical examples of links (the generalized Borromean rings) are not A-B slice. A stronger version of the conjecture, that the Borromean r…
We investigate the Dolbeault operator on a pair of pants, i.e., an elementary cobordism between a circle and the disjoint union of two circles. This operator induces a canonical selfadjoint Dirac operator Dt on each regular level set Ct of a fixed Morse function defining this cobordism. We show that as we approac…
Paper studies metric ribbon graphs and provides a recursion for their volumes.
problem Calculating volumes of combinatorial moduli spaces of directed metric ribbon graphs.
method Decomposes directed ribbon graphs into simpler graphs with one vertex, proving a canonical recursion scheme for volumes.
result Explicit recursion for volumes of four-valent metric ribbon graphs provided.
The paper characterizes symplectic fillings of Seifert 3-manifolds using rational blowdowns.
problem Understanding symplectic fillings of Seifert 3-manifolds.
method Rational blowdown surgery and minimal symplectic fillings.
result A necessary and sufficient condition for minimal symplectic fillings to be obtained by rational blowdowns.
Non-isotopic Heegaard splittings of non-minimal genus were known previously only for very special 3-manifolds. We show in this paper that they are in fact a wide spread phenomenon in 3-manifold theory: We exhibit a large class of knots and manifolds obtained by Dehn surgery on these knots which admit such splittings. M…
Modulo trivial exceptions, we show that smoothly nontrivial symplectic sums of symplectic 4-manifolds along surfaces of positive genus are never rational or ruled, and we enumerate each case in which they have Kodaira dimension zero (i.e., are blowups of symplectic 4-manifolds with torsion canonical class). In particul…
The paper studies symplectic operations on Stein fillings of Brieskorn singularities.
problem Symplectic operations on Stein fillings of Brieskorn singularities.
method Two interpretations: symplectic sum and monodromy substitution in a Lefschetz fibration.
result Generalized chain surgeries and their applications in symplectic geometry.
In this paper, we establish a rigorous correspondence between the two tube algebras, that one comes from the Turaev-Viro-Ocneanu TQFT introduced by Ocneanu and another comes from the sector theory introduced by Izumi, and construct a canonical isomorphism between the centers of the two tube algebras, which is a conjuga…
Formula connects surgeries to Seiberg-Witten invariants.
problem Understanding how surgeries affect Seiberg-Witten invariants.
method Proves surgery formulas for Seiberg-Witten invariants and families.
result Expresses new invariants in terms of original ones.
Let K be a knot in the 3--sphere. An r-surgery on K is left-orderable if the resulting 3--manifold K(r) of the surgery has left-orderable fundamental group, and an r-surgery on K is called an L-space surgery if K(r) is an L-space. A conjecture of Boyer, Gordon and Watson says that non-reducing surgeries on K can be cla…
The paper examines exceptional surgeries on S3 and finds that the slope must be ±1.
problem The cosmetic surgery conjecture on S3. method Survey and proof of properties of exceptional surgeries.
result The slope of an exceptional truly cosmetic surgery on a hyperbolic knot in S3 must be ±1. Study confirms contact cosmetic surgery for most knots, with exceptions.
problem Determining contact cosmetic surgeries for Legendrian knots.
method Analyzing Legendrian knots, including unknots, and using contact surgery theory.
result Some Legendrian unknots have unique contact surgeries without a cosmetic pair.
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.
Cosmetic surgeries on pretzel knots are unique.
problem Understanding unique three-manifolds from surgeries on knots.
method Analyzing pretzel knots through Dehn surgeries.
result All pretzel knots satisfy the cosmetic surgery conjecture.
Study pochette surgery on 4-manifolds, focusing on 4-spheres.
problem Understanding pochette surgery on 4-spheres and its effects.
method Using linking number of pochette embeddings, compute homology and analyze surgeries.
result Pochette surgery on any homology 4-sphere can be computed via homology, and trivial cord surgeries do not change diffeomorphism type.
We solve a conjecture about surgeries on special 3D shapes.
problem Cosmetic surgery conjecture in 3-manifold theory.
method Proved constraints on exceptional surgeries for homology spheres.
result At most one pair of exceptional truly cosmetic slopes for non-trivial surgeries.
New method proves cosmetic surgery conjecture for certain knots.
problem Proving the cosmetic surgery conjecture for specific knots.
method Using filtered instanton homology and Chern-Simons filtration.
result Reduced the conjecture to surgeries of ±2 on genus 2 knots. New Heegaard Floer homology findings block chirally cosmetic surgeries.
problem Chirally cosmetic surgeries on knots and manifolds.
method Heegaard Floer homology, immersed curve formulations, and surgery formula.
result New obstructions to chirally cosmetic surgeries identified.
Round surgery diagrams represent 3-manifolds in S3.
problem Representing and manipulating 3-manifolds in S3. method Introducing round surgery diagrams and defining moves to establish Kirby Calculus.
result Any 3-manifold can be obtained by a round surgery on a framed link in S3. The study calculates and analyzes alternating surgeries for various knots.
problem Identifying and understanding alternating surgeries on knots.
method Algorithmic computation and structural analysis of alternating surgery slopes.
result The set of alternating surgery slopes is algorithmically computable and exhibits interesting phenomena.
The LMO invariant helps find constraints for cosmetic surgeries on knots.
problem Finding constraints for cosmetic surgeries on knots.
method Using the LMO invariant to analyze surgeries on knots.
result Constraints for knots to admit cosmetic surgeries and Lens space surgeries.
The paper constructs homotopy 4-spheres using pochette surgery.
problem Creating homotopy 4-spheres from pochette surgeries.
method Pochette surgery generalizes Gluck surgery to construct embeddings of pochettes into the 4-sphere and proves homotopy 4-spheres are diffeomorphic to the 4-sphere.
result Homotopy 4-spheres obtained from pochette surgeries are all diffeomorphic to the 4-sphere.
Study chirally cosmetic surgeries on knots with constraints and invariants.
problem Understanding chirally cosmetic surgeries on knots.
method Use original and SL(2,C) Casson invariants. result Complete classification of chirally cosmetic surgeries on genus one alternating knots.
Contact round surgeries on (S3,ξst) help in constructing and understanding contact 3-manifolds.
problem Constructing contact 3-manifolds using Legendrian surgeries.
method Introducing contact round surgeries of indices 1 and 2, and associating them with surgery diagrams.
result Every closed connected contact 3-manifold can be obtained by a sequence of contact round surgeries on Legendrian knots in (S3,ξst).