Classifies geodesic planes outside convex core of geometrically finite 3-manifolds.
problem Classifying geodesic planes in geometrically finite 3-manifolds.
method Constructive proof involving exotic rays and roofs.
result Existence of exotic roofs depends on the existence of exotic rays and bending lamination properties.
Study irrational rotations and construct 2-filling rays on infinite type surfaces.
problem Understanding dense orbits in skew product transformations.
method Skew product transformation with continued fraction analysis.
result Existence of infinite cliques of 2-filling rays on infinite type surfaces.
We answer a question of Durham, Hagen, and Sisto, proving that a Teichmüller geodesic ray does not necessarily converge to a unique point in the hierarchically hyperbolic space boundary of Teichmüller space. In fact, we prove that the limit set can be almost anything allowed by the topology.
New 4-manifolds with exotic diffeomorphisms found.
problem Existence of exotic diffeomorphisms in 4-manifolds.
method Proves existence of infinitely many contractible 4-manifolds with exotic diffeomorphisms.
result Infinitely many contractible 4-manifolds with absolutely exotic diffeomorphisms.
Exotic submanifolds in 4-manifolds remain exotic after stabilizations.
problem Constructing exotic codimension-1 submanifolds in 4-manifolds.
method Constructing pairs of exotic codimension-1 submanifolds with diffeomorphic complements and showing they remain exotic after stabilizations.
result Exotic submanifolds remain exotic after any number of stabilizations.
Study extends geodesic ray transform results to orientable surfaces.
problem Characterize and stabilize mixed and transverse ray transforms on surfaces.
method Algebraic arguments applied to various geometries and ray transforms.
result Characterization of kernel and stability for mixed and transverse ray transforms on orientable surfaces.
Study exotic Dehn twists in 4-manifolds, producing first known exotic diffeomorphisms.
problem Detecting exotic diffeomorphisms in 4-manifolds.
method 2-parameter families Seiberg-Witten theory over RP2. result Constructed the smallest closed 4-manifold with exotic diffeomorphisms.
New methods distinguish exotic 4-manifolds using Heegaard Floer homology.
problem Distinguishing exotic 4-manifolds from standard ones.
method Using Heegaard Floer homology to define new invariants.
result New invariants remain distinct in covers and can distinguish exotic manifolds.
Constructs exotic proper 2-knots from open 2-handles.
problem Proving topological equivalence of exotic proper knotted surfaces.
method Flexible construction of exotic open 2-handles, distinguishing through genus functions and end Floer homology.
result Constructs infinite families of irreducible exotic proper knotted surfaces.
The paper presents a new method to create exotic 4-manifolds and surfaces that remain exotic after stabilization.
problem Stabilization of exotic 4-dimensional phenomena and knotted surfaces.
method Elementary approach to constructing exotic 4-manifolds and surfaces, including examples in closed, simply connected 4-manifolds.
result The construction yields exotic surfaces in the 4-ball that remain exotic after stabilization, detected by Khovanov homology.
New actions found on exotic spheres using group theory.
problem Understanding smooth transformations on exotic spheres.
method Recent progress in stable homotopy groups of spheres and group theory.
result Smooth circle and cyclic group actions on exotic spheres produced.
The paper constructs exotic knotted surfaces and curves in 4-manifolds.
problem Understanding exotic knotted surfaces and curves in 4-manifolds.
method Local knotting and construction of surfaces and curves.
result First examples of exotically knotted complex curves and symplectic 2-spheres.
Paper finds exotic diffeomorphisms on specific 4-manifolds.
problem Understanding exotic diffeomorphisms on 4-manifolds with b2+=2. method Comparing winding numbers of parameter families.
result 2\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2 \# 10 (-\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2) admits exotic diffeomorphisms.
Detects exotic embeddings in 4-manifolds with boundary.
problem Detecting exotic diffeomorphisms in 4-manifolds with boundary.
method Defined family versions of Kronheimer-Mrowka invariants and used them to find exotic embeddings.
result First example of exotic 3-spheres in a smooth closed 4-manifold with diffeomorphic complements.
Ray-Singer torsion is a mathematical concept with applications in physics.
problem No specific problem stated in the abstract.
method No specific method stated in the abstract.
result No specific key result stated in the abstract.
Study exotic phenomena in small 4-manifolds using diffeomorphisms.
problem Understanding exotic smooth structures and embeddings in 4-manifolds.
method Using constraints from Seiberg-Witten theory on diffeomorphisms.
result New methods to detect and bound exotic phenomena.
We show how to construct absolutely exotic smooth structures on compact 4-manifolds with boundary, including contractible manifolds. In particular, we prove that any compact smooth 4-manifold W with boundary that admits a relatively exotic structure contains a pair of codimension-zero submanifolds homotopy equivalent t…
Since the first work on exotic smoothness in physics, it was folklore to assume a direct influence of exotic smoothness to quantum gravity. In the second paper, we calculate the "smoothness structure" part of the path integral in quantum gravity for the exotic R^4 as non-compact manifold. We discuss the influence of th…
New exotic structures found on 4-manifolds with specific groups.
problem Finding exotic smooth structures on 4-manifolds with certain fundamental groups.
method Constructing new smooth structures using definite intersection forms and fundamental groups.
result Infinitely many exotic smooth structures on 4-manifolds with fundamental group Z/2Z.
4-manifolds can be exotic after connected sum with S^2 x S^2.
problem Existence of exotic contractible 4-manifolds.
method Constructed a cork that remains exotic after connected sum with S^2 x S^2.
result Existence of exotic pair of contractible 4-manifolds.
New exotic 4-manifolds found with small trisection genus.
problem Finding exotic 4-manifolds with small trisection genus.
method Constructing genus-3 relative trisections for contractible 4-manifolds.
result Exotic 4-manifolds with boundary have trisection genus of 4.
This paper constructs exotic diffeomorphisms on reducible 4-manifolds with odd b+.
problem Detecting exotic diffeomorphisms on reducible 4-manifolds with odd b+.
method Using a families Bauer-Furuta invariant and pin-cobordism.
result Constructs exotic diffeomorphisms on reducible 4-manifolds with odd b+.
In this paper we introduce exotic twisted T-equivariant K-theory of loop space LZ depending on the (typically non-flat) holonomy line bundle LB on LZ induced from a gerbe with connection B on Z. We also define exotic twisted T-equivariant Chern character that maps the exotic tw…
Exotic diffeomorphisms found on complex surfaces and 4-manifolds.
problem Finding exotic diffeomorphisms on 4-manifolds.
method Minimal complex surfaces and spin 4-manifolds with S3 boundary. result First known instances of exotic diffeomorphisms of irreducible 4-manifolds.
We show that any grafting ray in Teichmüller space is (strongly) asymptotic to some Teichmüller geodesic ray. As an intermediate step we introduce surfaces that arise as limits of these degenerating Riemann surfaces. Given a grafting ray, the proof involves a Teichmüller ray with a conformally equivalent limit, and bui…
New exotic 4D spaces found using knot slicing techniques.
problem Finding non-diffeomorphic exotic 4D spaces.
method Using RBG links to create slice knots with non-diffeomorphic complements.
result Distinguished new exotic 4D spaces using end Floer homology.
Study of torus surgeries on knot traces, finding exotic surfaces and traces.
problem Understanding exotic surfaces and traces through torus surgeries.
method Realizing annulus twisting as torus surgery, using key technical insight.
result Exotic elliptic surfaces and traces discovered, improving known geography.
Paper defines end Khovanov homology to detect exotic planes.
problem Detecting exotic Lagrangian and symplectic planes in 4-space.
method Define and apply end Khovanov homology to surfaces in 4-space.
result First known examples of exotic Lagrangian and symplectic planes found.
Survey on broken ray transforms and open problems.
problem Understanding broken ray transforms and their applications.
method Survey of recent developments and open problems.
result Discussion of open problems in broken ray transforms.
Paper explores using 0-surgery to find exotic 4-manifolds.
problem Distinguishing smooth structures on 4-manifolds.
method Uses 0-surgery homeomorphisms to generate exotic pairs.
result Found 5 topologically slice knots potentially leading to exotic spheres.
New results on localization of exotic diffeomorphisms in 4-manifolds.
problem Understanding when groups of exotic diffeomorphisms can be localized to smaller embedded submanifolds.
method Analyzing families Seiberg-Witten theory, Dehn twists, and properties of Seifert fibered homology spheres.
result Exotic diffeomorphisms cannot be localized to topologically embedded rational homology balls or homology spheres.
New exotic 4D spaces with nontrivial mappings.
problem Creating exotic copies of R4 with nontrivial mapping class groups. method Modification of diffeomorphism corks to make exteriors simply-connected.
result Construct exotic copies of R4 with mapping class groups of arbitrarily large rank. Construct non-split 2-component links in S4 to produce exotic pairs of 4-manifolds
problem Construct non-split 2-component links in S4 method Construct non-split 2-component links in S4 result Obtain exotic pairs of simply connected, definite 4-manifolds with boundary
We reduce the broken ray transform on some Riemannian manifolds (with corners) to the geodesic ray transform on another manifold, which is obtained from the original one by reflection. We give examples of this idea and present injectivity results for the broken ray transform using corresponding earlier results for the …
New method uses Khovanov homology to distinguish exotic 4-manifolds.
problem Distinguishing exotic compact, orientable 4-manifolds.
method Introduces a new, simple way of using Khovanov homology.
result First analysis-free proof of existence of exotic Mazur manifolds.
The paper creates exotic 4-manifold structures with a specific group.
problem Producing exotic structures on 4-manifolds with infinite dihedral fundamental group.
method Using specific conditions on b2+ and b2−, the paper constructs these structures. result The existence of infinite exotic structures on 4-manifolds with infinite dihedral fundamental group.
We study rays and co-rays in the Wasserstein space Pp(X) (p>1) whose ambient space X is a complete, separable, non-compact, locally compact length space. We show that rays in the Wasserstein space can be represented as probability measures concentrated on the set of rays in the ambient spac…
Exotic diffeomorphism survives stabilizations on a contractible 4-manifold.
problem Finding exotic diffeomorphisms on contractible 4-manifolds.
method Developed a Pin(2) × Z_2-equivariant refinement for computing Seiberg-Witten Floer homotopy types.
result Constructed an exotic diffeomorphism that survives two stabilizations.
Exotic hypercomplex structures on a torus are proven to not exist.
problem Existence of exotic hypercomplex structures on a torus.
method Classification of complete flat affine structures on real tori using the Obata connection.
result Exotic hypercomplex structures on a torus do not exist.
An explicit example of an exotic symplectic R6 is given. Together with an earlier known example on R4, this yields an explicit exotic symplectic form on R2n for all n≥2.
New module constructs exotic surfaces in 4-manifolds.
problem Constructing exotic surfaces in 4-manifolds.
method Using Bar-Natan Khovanov homology and skein lasagna gluing maps.
result Exotic surfaces require at least one internal stabilization.
Three disjoint rays in euclidean 3-space form Borromean rays provided their union is knotted, but the union of any two components is unknotted. We construct infinitely many Borromean rays, uncountably many of which are pairwise inequivalent. We obtain uncountably many Borromean hyperplanes.
Paper extends Miyazawa's construction to more 4-manifolds, finding exotic involutions and embeddings.
problem Finding exotic involutions and embeddings in 4-manifolds.
method Real Seiberg-Witten theory.
result Many infinite families of exotic involutions and embeddings.
In the spirit of Arrow-Debreu, we introduce a family of financial derivatives that act as primitive securities in that exotic derivatives can be approximated by their linear combinations. We call these financial derivatives signature payoffs. We show that signature payoffs can be used to nonparametrically price and hed…
Study exotic tori and their SL_d(Z) actions, proving many do not admit nontrivial actions.
problem Characterize exotic tori admitting SL_d(Z) actions.
method Compute mapping class groups, analyze homology actions, and prove non-existence of nontrivial actions.
result Many exotic tori do not admit nontrivial SL_d(Z) actions.
The paper constructs exotic complex projective surfaces using rational blowdowns.
problem Finding exotic complex projective surfaces with specific invariants.
method Rational blowdowns and construction of Kollár--Shepherd-Barron--Alexeev surfaces.
result First exotic surfaces constructed, including minimal and symplectic ones.
We estimate prices of exotic options in a discrete-time model-free setting when the trader has access to market prices of a rich enough class of exotic and vanilla options. This is achieved by estimating an unobservable quantity called "implied expected signature" from such market prices, which are used to price other …
Infinite clique of rays in plane minus Cantor set.
problem Understanding the mapping class group of plane minus Cantor set.
method Using a graph of loops and cliques of high-filling rays.
result Construction of an infinite clique of high-filling rays.