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New knots have same group, quandle, but different homotopy invariants.

A countable CW complex $K$ is quasi-finite (as defined by A.Karasev) if for every finite subcomplex $M$ of $K$ there is a finite subcomplex $e(M)$ such that any map $f:A\to M$, where $A$ is closed in a separable metric space $X$ satisfying $XτK$, has an extension $g:X\to e(M)$. Levin's results imply that none of the Ei…

New argument for 3-manifold cohomology with $\mathbb{F}_2$ coefficients.

Researchers classify quotients of lens spaces using linear actions and topological tools.

Study Alexander polynomials of special alternating links and generalize Fox's conjecture.

Defines a new invariant for 4-manifolds with boundary.

The Temperley-Lieb algebra is a fundamental component of SU(2) topological quantum field theories. We construct chain complexes corresponding to minimal idempotents in the Temperley-Lieb algebra. Our results apply to the framework which determines Khovanov homology. Consequences of our work include semi-orthogonal deco…

The paper constructs a nontrivial diffeomorphism in 4-manifold topology.

We study smooth maps between smooth manifolds with only fold points as their singularities, and clarify the obstructions to the existence of such a map in a given homotopy class for certain dimensions. The obstructions are described in terms of characteristic classes, which arise as Postnikov invariants, and can be int…

Study homotopy types of 4-manifolds, finding decompositions and conditions for desuspension.

The paper characterizes cohomotopy sets of specific manifolds.

The paper explores polytopes and their connections to knot theory and Floer homology.

Unified cosmological and Einstein polytope theories.

We give an alternative to Postnikov's homotopy classification of maps from 3-dimensional CW-complexes to homogeneous spaces G/H of Lie groups. It describes homotopy classes in terms of lifts to the group G and is suitable for extending the notion of homotopy to Sobolev maps. This is required for applications to variati…

Miura-type transformations (MTs) are an essential tool in the theory of integrable nonlinear partial differential and difference equations. We present a geometric method to construct MTs for differential-difference (lattice) equations from Darboux-Lax representations (DLRs) of such equations. The method is applicable t…

Floer homotopy theory applies to Lagrangians, overcoming curvature issues.

Totally nonnegative flag varieties are shown to be regular CW complexes.

The study tackles realisability of twisted homology classes and introduces new techniques in parametrised homotopy theory.

We show that the small quantum product of the generalized flag manifold $G/B$ is a product operation on $H^*(G/B)\otimes \bR[q_1,..., q_l]$ uniquely determined by the fact that it is a deformation of the cup product on $H^*(G/B)$, it is commutative, associative, graded with respect to $°(q_i)=4$, it satisfies a certain…

For a closed topological $n$--manifold $K$ and a map $p:K\to B$ inducing an isomorphism $π_1(K)\toπ_1(B)$, there is a canonicaly defined morphism $b:H_{n+1}(B,K,\mathbb{L})\to \mathbb{S} (K)$, where $\mathbb{L}$ is the periodic simply-connected surgery spectrum and $\mathbb{S} (K)$ is the topological structure set. We …

Top/O's first two k-invariants are zero.

Geodesically equivalent Finsler metrics share invariant volume forms and first integrals.

The first eigenvalue of invariant functions on toric Kähler manifolds has no critical points.

Study reformulates Finsler metrizability problems using geodesic invariance.

Study Milnor invariants for covering links to distinguish certain links.

New rack invariants detect geometric properties of Legendrian knots.

Study convolution of invariant valuations on Lie groups.

New invariants for long and framed virtual knots.

In this paper, we define some polynomial invariants for virtual knots and links. In the first part we use Manturov's parity axioms to obtain a new polynomial invariant of virtual knots. This invariant can be regarded as a generalization of the odd writhe polynomial defined by the first author. The relation between this…

Foam cobordism groups linked to interval exchange automorphisms.

In this thesis, we give a unification of the quantum WRT invariants. Given a rational homology 3-sphere M and a link L inside, we define the unified invariants, such that the evaluation of these invariants at a root of unity equals the corresponding quantum WRT invariant. In the SU(2) case, we assume the order of the f…

Algorithm calculates polynomial coefficients of link invariants.

New research shows invariant networks can approximate any continuous function.

The paper studies invariants of differential 2-forms on manifolds.

We study first order local invariants of Vassiliev type for Lagrangian immersions with generic planar caustics. For this we produce some examples of 2-parameter families of Lagrangian maps and study their bifurcation diagrams.

We generalise a theorem of Engman and Abreu--Freitas on the first invariant eigenvalue of non-negatively curved $S^{1}$-invariant metrics on $\mathbb{CP}^{1}$ to general toric Kähler metrics with non-negative scalar curvature. In particular, a simple upper bound of the first non-zero invariant eigenvalue for such metri…

We show that the location of the first singularity of the Upsilon function of an algebraic knot is determined by the first term of its Puiseux characteristic sequence. In many cases this gives better bounds than the tau invariant on the genus of a cobordism between algebraic knots.

The values that the first two Vassiliev invariants take on prime knots with up to fourteen crossings are considered. This leads to interesting fish-like graphs. Several results about the values taken on torus knots are proved.

We construct two knot invariants. The first knot invariant is a sum constructed using linking numbers. The second is an invariant of flat knots and is a formal sum of flat knots obtained by smoothing pairs of crossings. This invariant can be used in conjunction with other flat invariants, forming a family of invariants…

In this paper we give a re-normalization of the Reshetikhin-Turaev quantum invariants of links, by modified quantum dimensions. In the case of simple Lie algebras these modified quantum dimensions are proportional to the usual quantum dimensions. More interestingly we will give two examples where the usual quantum dime…

In this paper the notion of an M-th order invariant bilinear differential pairing is introduced and a formal definition is given. If the manifold has an AHS structure, then various first order pairings are constructed. This yields a classification of all first order invariant bilinear differential pairings on homogeneo…

A link L in the 3-sphere is called Brunnian if every proper sublink of L is trivial. In a previous paper, the first author proved that the restriction to Brunnian links of any Goussarov-Vassiliev finite type invariant of (n+1)-component links of degree<2n is trivial. The purpose of this paper is to study the first nont…

New quantum invariant is asymptotically multiplicative under cyclic covers.

BGG-operators form sequences of invariant differential operators and the first of these is overdetermined. Interesting equations in conformal geometry described by these operators are those for Einstein scales, conformal Killing forms and conformal Killing tensors. We present a deformation procedure of the tractor conn…

We prove several results about the multiplicity of the first Steklov eigenvalues on compact surfaces with boundary. We improve some bounds on the multiplicity, especially for the first eigenvalue, and we prove they are sharp on some surfaces of small genus. In a previous article, we defined a new chromatic invariant of…

New formula counts triangles to compute first Chern class of circle bundles.

We give a characterization of conformal classes realizing a compact manifold's Yamabe invariant. This characterization is the analogue of an observation of Nadirashvili for metrics realizing the maximal first eigenvalue, and of Fraser and Schoen for metrics realizing the maximal first Steklov eigenvalue.

Algorithm computes quantum invariants of 3-manifolds with bounded first Betti number.