arXiv research

New knots found with Seifert genus not matching minimal genus Seifert surfaces.

Construct divide knots with specific genus properties.

The concordance genus of a knot K is the minimum Seifert genus of all knots smoothly concordant to K. Concordance genus is bounded below by the 4-ball genus and above by the Seifert genus. We give a lower bound for the concordance genus of K coming from the knot Floer complex of K. As an application, we prove that ther…

The paper generalizes the $T$-genus to characterize slice knots and slice genus.

Characterizes the Z-genus of boundary links using Blanchfield forms.

The concordance genus of a knot is the least genus of any knot in its concordance class. Although difficult to compute, it is a useful invariant that highlights the distinction between the three-genus and four-genus. In this paper we define and discuss the stable concordance genus of a knot, which describes the behavio…

Classifies 3-braid knots with maximal 4-genus using McCoy's method.

Study shows non-equivariant and equivariant non-orientable 4-genus of periodic knots can differ.

Study Khovanov homology of Turaev genus one links, finding a trivial summand.

The concordance genus of a knot is the least genus of any knot in its concordance class. It is bounded above by the genus of the knot, and bounded below by the slice genus, two well-studied invariants. In this paper we consider the concordance genus of 11--crossing prime knots. This analysis resolves the concordance ge…

This article is about the graph genus of certain well studied graphs in surface theory: the curve, pants and flip graphs. We study both the genus of these graphs and the genus of their quotients by the mapping class group. The full graphs, except for in some low complexity cases, all have infinite genus. The curve grap…

Classifies knot traces with specific trisection genus limits.

Classifies Teichmüller curves in genus three from genus two.

The paper proves trisection genus of Akbulut cork and constructs many corks with trisection genus 3.

New expanders for mean curvature flow contradict genus-reduction conjecture.

Study shows systole behavior changes significantly for large genus hyperbolic surfaces.

Lower bounds on rational slice genus using Heegaard Floer invariants.

Survey of minimal genus problem progress.

Algorithm calculates genus of embedded graphs on surfaces.

In this paper, we develop a lower bound for the double slice genus of a knot using Casson-Gordon invariants. As an application, we show that the double slice genus can be arbitrarily larger than twice the slice genus. As an analogue to the double slice genus, we also define the superslice genus of a knot, and give both…

For each g > 2 and h > 1, we explicitly construct (1) fiber sum indecomposable relatively minimal genus g Lefschetz fibrations over genus h surfaces whose monodromies lie in the Torelli group, (2) fiber sum indecomposable genus g surface bundles over genus h surfaces whose monodromies are in the Torelli group (provided…

The paper explores the genus of surfaces in complex projective spaces and improves minimal genus bounds.

Shows large unknotting number for simple knots.

We introduce a new link invariant called the algebraic genus, which gives an upper bound for the topological slice genus of links. In fact, the algebraic genus is an upper bound for another version of the slice genus proposed here: the minimal genus of a surface in the four-ball whose complement has infinite cyclic fun…

Correspondence found between Askey-Wilson polynomials and genus-two handlebody skein module.

The paper calculates genus bounds for multibranched surfaces.

New lower bound for doubly slice genus using knot signatures.

In this paper we write explicitly the open book decompositions of links of quotient surface singularities supporting the corresponding unique Milnor fillable contact structure. The page-genus of these Milnor open books are minimal among all Milnor open books supporting the same contact structure. We also investigate wh…

An open book decomposition of a 3-manifold $M$ induces a Heegaard splitting for $M$, and the minimal genus among all Heegaard splittings induced by open book decompositions is called the \emph{open book genus} of $M$. It is conjectured by Ozbagci \cite{O} that the open book genus is additive under the connected sum of …

It is well-known that Heegaard genus is additive under connected sum of 3-manifolds. We show that Heegaard genus of contact 3-manifolds is not necessarily additive under contact connected sum. We also prove some basic properties of the contact genus (a.k.a. open book genus) of 3-manifolds, and compute this invariant fo…

Study knots with genus one, finds Gordian distance and cosmetic crossing constraints.

The Turaev genus of a link can be thought of as a way of measuring how non-alternating a link is. A link is Turaev genus zero if and only if it is alternating, and in this viewpoint, links with large Turaev genus are very non-alternating. In this paper, we study Turaev genus one links, a class of links which includes a…

For $d\geq 2$, the regular genus of a closed connected PL $d$-manifold $M$ is the least genus (resp., half of the genus) of an orientable (resp., a non-orientable) surface into which a crystallization of $M$ imbeds regularly. The regular genus of every orientable surface equals its genus, and the regular genus of every…

We describe the genus two knots which admit a genus one, one bridge position. These are divided into several families, one consists of vertical bandings of two genus one $(1,1)$-knots, other consists of vertical bandings of two cross cap number two 2-bridge knots, and the last one consists of genus two tunnel number on…

Study of lengths of cycles in large genus random maps converging to Poisson process.

Study shows genus two Heegaard diagrams for all Thurston geometries.

Enumerated all genus two handlebody-knots with seven crossings.

First constructed genus 2 Cantor set in 3D space.

The paper reconfirms a lower bound on rational genus using Heegaard Floer homology.

The strong symmetric genus of a finite group is the minimum genus of a compact Riemann surface on which the group acts as a group of automorphisms preserving orientation. A characterization of the infinite number of groups with strong symmetric genus zero and one is well-known and the problem is finite for each strong …

Proves certain subgroups of genus 2 handlebody group are convex cocompact.

Stable subgroups identified in genus two handlebody group.

A specific set of 4g+1 elements is shown to generate the Goeritz group of the genus g+1 Heegaard splitting of a genus g handlebody. These generators are consistent with Powell's proposed generating set for the Goeritz group of the genus g+1 splitting of S^3. There are two proofs: one using purely classical techniques a…

New Witten rigidity theorems for elliptic genus in various dimensions.

We classify all knot diagrams of genus two and three, and give applications to positive, alternating and homogeneous knots, including a classification of achiral genus 2 alternating knots, slice or achiral 2-almost positive knots, a proof of the 3- and 4-move conjectures, and the calculation of the maximal hyperbolic v…

Existence proof of noncompact self-shrinkers with arbitrary genus.

Proves prime theta-curves for knots on minimal genus surfaces.

A chord diagram consists of a circle, called the backbone, with line segments, called chords, whose endpoints are attached to distinct points on the circle. The genus of a chord diagram is the genus of the orientable surface obtained by thickening the backbone to an annulus and attaching bands to the inner boundary cir…