Study fiber-preserving, orientation-reversing involutions on Seifert fibered 3-manifolds.
problem Characterize fiber-preserving, orientation-reversing involutions on Seifert fibered 3-manifolds.
method Construct a class of involutions, extend product involutions, and use double covering.
result Any fiber-preserving, orientation-reversing involution factors as a product of an orientation-preserving and a specific class of involutions.
Extends fibering theorems for 3-manifolds.
problem Fibering compact 3-manifolds over the circle.
method Generalizes Moon and Griffiths' theorems.
result New fibering results for 3-manifolds.
Study Veech groups in fibered 3-manifolds, proving no parabolics for fibers.
problem Characterizing Veech groups in fibered 3-manifolds.
method Analyzing pseudo-Anosov monodromies and foliations, proving properties of Veech groups.
result Veech groups in fibers typically contain no parabolic elements.
Describes 3-manifolds by families of singularly fibered surfaces.
problem Understanding the structure of 3-manifolds through fibered surfaces.
method Explicitly describes a fibration of the complement of a homogeneous braid.
result Each fiber intersects every cross-section of S3. Defines products for fibered corners manifolds, generalizing resolutions.
problem Resolving fibered corners manifolds.
method Introduces a category of fibered corners manifolds with products and transverse fiber products, defining the 'ordered product' for wedge metrics.
result The 'ordered product' is a natural product for wedge metrics.
The paper proves non-existence of positive scalar curvature on certain fiber bundles.
problem The existence of positive scalar curvature metrics on fiber bundles.
method Analyzing fiber bundles over specific manifolds with incompressible or homotopically nontrivial fibers.
result Non-existence of PSC metrics on certain fiber bundles under specific conditions.
A 5-manifold fibers over a circle with nonpositive curvature.
problem Finding nonpositively curved manifolds that fiber over a circle.
method Exhibited a specific 5-manifold with nonpositive curvature.
result The fiber is a 4-manifold with nonhyperbolic fundamental group.
New exotic 4-manifolds found with fiber bundles.
problem Finding non-diffeomorphic exotic 4-manifolds.
method Smooth fiber bundles over the circle.
result Exotic 4-manifolds with non-simply-connected fiber.
Paper connects homologically fibered links to solutions of equations.
problem Existence of homologically fibered links in 3-manifolds.
method Interprets existence in terms of first homology group and torsion linking form, or surgery diagrams.
result Computes hc for specific 3-manifolds.
Classifies tight contact structures on specific Seifert fibered manifolds.
problem Classifying tight contact structures on Seifert fibered manifolds.
method Constructed contact structures using Legendrian surgery and used convex surface theory for the upper bound.
result Found the lower and upper bounds for tight contact structures.
Study Turaev-Viro invariants of Seifert fibered 3-manifolds, proving volume conjecture.
problem Understanding the asymptotic behavior of Turaev-Viro invariants for Seifert fibered 3-manifolds.
method Analysis of large r asymptotic behavior of Turaev-Viro invariants. result Proved the volume conjecture for Seifert fibered 3-manifolds with empty and non-empty boundaries.
Investigates conditions for GKM fiber bundles and realizability of fiber bundles of GKM graphs.
problem Conditions for GKM fiber bundles and realizability of fiber bundles of GKM graphs.
method Analysis of GKM graphs and fiber bundles, counterexamples, and classification of twist automorphisms.
result Realizability of fiber bundles of GKM graphs depends on the twist automorphism and can be decided in terms of the classification.
Study shows simplicial volume of certain fiber bundles is zero.
problem Understanding simplicial volume in fiber bundles with nonpositive curvature.
method Proved simplicial volume is zero for specific fiber bundles.
result Simplicial volume of certain fiber bundles is zero.
New bounds found for minimal surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
problem Bounding the maximum principal curvatures of minimal surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Short argument using work of Uhlenbeck and families of fibered hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
result Uniform lower bound for maximum principal curvatures greater than one.
Unique incompressible surface in fibered 3-manifolds.
problem Finding unique incompressible surfaces in fibered 3-manifolds.
method Construction of a family of fibered hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
result The unique incompressible surface is the fibre itself.
Study connects surface projections in fibered 3-manifolds.
problem Understanding surface projections in fibered 3-manifolds.
method Uniformly relates structure of surface projections across fibrations.
result Extends previous work to general cases.
Study shows certain subgroups of fibered 3-manifolds are convex cocompact.
problem Understanding subgroups of fibered 3-manifolds in mapping class groups.
method Used the Birman exact sequence to show convex cocompactness.
result Finitely generated pseudo-Anosov subgroups are convex cocompact.
The infimal Heegaard gradient of a compact 3-manifold was defined and studied by Marc Lackenby in an approach toward the well-known virtually Haken conjecture. As instructive examples, we consider Seifert fibered 3-manifolds, and show that a Seifert fibered 3-manifold has zero infimal Heegaard gradient if and only if i…
Study on fibered knots in 3-manifolds, proving unrelated volume and genus.
problem Unrelated volume and genus in hyperbolic fibered knots.
method Proof of unrelated volume and genus for hyperbolic fibered knots in 3-manifolds.
result Proved that volume and genus are unrelated for hyperbolic fibered knots.
Closed self-covering manifolds with abelian fundamental groups fiber over tori.
problem Understanding the structure of self-covering manifolds with abelian fundamental groups.
method Proving the existence of fiberings over tori under mild assumptions.
result Closed self-covering manifolds with abelian fundamental groups fiber over tori in various senses.
Finite quotients of fibered hyperbolic 3-manifold groups detect taut polynomials.
problem Detecting taut polynomials of fibered faces of Thurston norm balls
method Developing a framework for profinite invariance of twisted multivariable Alexander polynomials
result Proving finite quotients detect taut polynomials
In this note, we compute the virtual first Betti numbers of 4-manifolds fibering over S1 with prime fiber. As an application, we show that if such a manifold is symplectic with nonpositive Kodaira dimension, then the fiber itself is a sphere or torus bundle over S1. In a different direction, we prove that if the …
This paper initiates a systematic study of the relation of commensurability of surface automorphisms, or equivalently, fibered commensurability of 3-manifolds fibering over the circle. We show that every hyperbolic fibered commensurability class contains a unique minimal element, whereas the class of Seifert manifolds …
Given a manifold M, it is natural to ask in how many ways it fibers (we mean fibering in a general way, where the base might be an orbifold -- this could be described as Seifert fibering)There are group-theoretic obstructions to the existence of even one fibering, and in some cases (such as Kahler manifolds or three-di…
We prove a Hitchin-Thorpe inequality for noncompact Einstein 4-manifolds with asymptotic geometry at infinity. The asymptotic geometry at infinity is either a cusp bundle over a compact space (the fibered cusps) or a fiber bundle over a cone with a compact fiber (the fibered boundary). Many noncompact Einstein manifold…
Resolves singular fibers of a 5-manifold with S1 action.
problem Discrete singular fibers of a closed 5-manifold with S1 action. method Construction of resolution compatible with cyclic surface singularities.
result Compatibility proved between resolution and cyclic surface singularities.
Around 1960, R. Palais and J. Cerf proved a fundamental result relating spaces of diffeomorphisms and imbeddings of manifolds: If V is a submanifold of M, then the map from Diff(M) to Imb(V,M) that takes f to its restriction to V is locally trivial. We extend this and related results into the context of fibered manifol…
Study shows surgeries on certain knots yield left-orderable 3-manifolds.
problem Integral Dehn surgeries on genus one fibered knots in lens spaces.
method Classification of genus one fibered knots by Baker and analysis of surgeries.
result All integral Dehn surgeries on these knots yield left-orderable 3-manifolds.
In this note we show that if a compact Kahler manifold with trivial canonical bundle is the total space of a holomorphic fibration without singular fibers, then the fibration is a holomorphic fiber bundle. In the algebraic case, the fibration becomes trivial after a finite base change.
The abstract discusses fiber sum formulas for 4-manifolds using topological modular forms.
problem Understanding fiber sum formulas for 4-manifolds.
method Using the connection between 4-manifolds and topological modular forms from 6d (1,0) SCFTs.
result Even free theories exhibit nontrivial fiber sum formulas, sensitive to individual theories and parameters.
Is a given map between compact topological manifolds homotopic to the projection map of a fiber bundle? In this paper obstructions to this question are introduced with values in higher algebraic K-theory. Their vanishing implies that the given map fibers stably. The methods also provide results for the corresponding un…
Study flippable Heegaard splittings in Seifert fibered spaces.
problem Identifying flippable Heegaard splittings in Seifert fibered spaces.
method Examining isotopies that interchange Heegaard splitting sides in Seifert fibered spaces.
result Characterized which Heegaard splittings are flippable in Seifert fibered spaces.
Dehn surgery on knots in 3-manifolds rarely results in surface fibered manifolds.
problem Understanding when Dehn surgery on knots in 3-manifolds results in surface fibered manifolds.
method Analyzing the fiberedness of Dehn surgeries on knots in 3-manifolds.
result Dehn surgery on knots in 3-manifolds is not surface fibered for all but a sparse set of slopes.
New bases found for Kauffman bracket skein module of fibered torus.
problem Computing Kauffman bracket skein module of fibered 3-manifolds.
method Constructed bases for Kauffman bracket skein module of product annulus and circle, then applied to (β,2)-fibered torus. result Found a new basis for KBSM of (β,2)-fibered torus. The paper constructs trisections for fiber bundles over a circle.
problem Building trisections for fiber bundles over the circle.
method Using sutured Heegaard splittings and diagrams, the paper provides an algorithm to construct relative trisection diagrams.
result Explicit construction of relative trisection diagrams for fiber bundles over the circle.
Defines a new symplectic Khovanov homology for links in fibered 3-manifolds.
problem No specific problem stated, but deals with Khovanov homology for links in fibered 3-manifolds.
method Defines a symplectic Khovanov type homology for a transverse link in a fibered closed 3-manifold with an auxiliary loop.
result Conjectural combinatorial dgas for surface categories, higher-dimensional analogs of strands algebras.
In a series of papers the authors proved that twisted Alexander polynomials detect fibered 3-manifolds, and they showed that this implies that a closed 3-manifold N is fibered if and only if S^1 x N is symplectic. In this note we summarize some of the key ideas of the proofs. We also give new evidence to the conjecture…
A classical result in knot theory says that the Alexander polynomial of a fibered knot is monic and that its degree equals twice the genus of the knot. This result has been generalized by various authors to twisted Alexander polynomials and fibered 3-manifolds. In this paper we show that the conditions on twisted Alexa…
Manifolds with fibered cusps are a class of complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds including all locally symmetric spaces of rank one. We study the spectrum of the Hodge Laplacian with coefficients in a flat bundle on a closed manifold undergoing degeneration to a manifold with fibered cusps. We obtain precise asympt…
We mostly determine which closed smooth oriented 4-manifolds fibering over lower dimensional manifolds are virtually symplectic, i.e. finitely covered by symplectic 4-manifolds.
New trick builds hyperbolic manifolds from compact ones, proving some don't virtually fiber.
problem Proving some hyperbolic manifolds don't virtually fiber.
method Hyperbolic reflection group trick, embedding theory, manifold topology.
result Constructed Gromov hyperbolic 7-manifolds that don't virtually fiber over a circle.
Proof of existence for ideal triangulations that normalize fibers in certain 3-manifolds.
problem Existence of ideal triangulations that normalize fibers in specific 3-manifolds.
method Proof and algorithm construction for ideal triangulations.
result Existence of ideal triangulations that normalize fibers in certain 3-manifolds.
New example shows noncontractible fiberings for a 3-manifold.
problem Understanding fiberings of S1imesS2. method Examining specific 3-manifolds and their fiber spaces.
result Components of SF(S1imesS2) are homotopy equivalent to ΩSO(3) and have noncontractible properties. It is known that the Alexander polynomial detects fibered knots and 3-manifolds that fiber over the circle. In this note, we show that when the Alexander polynomial becomes inconclusive, the notion of "knot adjacency", studied in the paper "Knot adjacency, genus and essential tori" by the authors, can be used to obtain…
The paper proves conditions for self-covering manifolds to be fiber bundles over a circle.
problem Conditions for self-covering manifolds to be fiber bundles over a circle.
method Developed a criterion for finite generation of modules over a commutative Noetherian ring and proved conditions for fiber bundles.
result Proved that certain self-covering manifolds with free abelian fundamental group are fiber bundles over a circle.
Lower bounds for cover degrees of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
problem Finding lower bounds for cover degrees of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Using volume, diameter, and new invariants to establish lower bounds.
result Established lower bounds for cover degrees in terms of given parameters.
Study characterizes martingales on fiber bundles for harmonic map analysis.
problem Characterizing martingales on fiber bundles for harmonic maps.
method Investigated ablaP-martingales on principal fiber bundles P(M,G) with a projectable connection. result New characterizations of harmonic maps established.
The E_8-manifold has several natural framed link descriptions, and we give an efficient method (via `grapes') for showing that they are indeed the same 4-manifold. This leads to explicit handle pictures for the perturbation of singular fibers in an elliptic surface to a collection of fishtails. In the same vein, we sho…