arXiv research

Holomorphic discs converge to maximal surfaces under specific flows.

The paper proves a 4-ball has non-Kähler structures with specific boundary properties.

This paper classifies symplectic and Stein fillings of contact 3-manifolds with spinal open book decompositions.

A complex filling of a CR manifold is said to be equivariant with respect to a CR action if the action extends to a smooth action by biholomorphisms on the whole filling. Under a noncompactness condition for the action, we describe all equivariant fillings of strongly pseudoconvex CR manifolds of dimension 3. Since the…

For any finitely presentable group $G$, we show the existence of an isolated complex surface singularity link which admits infinitely many exotic Stein fillings such that the fundamental group of each filling is isomorphic to $G$. We also provide an infinite family of closed exotic smooth four-manifolds with the fundam…

Worldsheet skein D-module for Hopf link conormal uniquely determines partition functions.

New geometric constructions for contact manifolds, not symplectically fillable.

We show that simply connected contact manifolds that are subcritically Stein fillable have a unique symplectically aspherical filling up to diffeomorphism. Various extensions to manifolds with non-trivial fundamental group are discussed. The proof rests on homological restrictions on symplectic fillings derived from a …

Study complex properties of minimal Lagrangian submanifolds in Kaehler spaces.

Holomorphic handle attaching proves complex surface properties.

Following a line of reasoning suggested by Eliashberg, we prove Cerf's theorem that any diffeomorphism of the 3-sphere extends over the 4-ball. To this end we develop a moduli-theoretic version of Eliashberg's filling-with-holomorphic-discs method.

This is a revision of some expository lecture notes written originally for a 5-hour minicourse on the intersection theory of punctured holomorphic curves and its applications in 3-dimensional contact topology. The main lectures are aimed primarily at students and require only a minimal background in holomorphic curve t…

New 5D contact manifolds found without fillings or torsion.

This article analyzes the interplay between symplectic geometry in dimension four and the invariants for smooth four-manifolds constructed using holomorphic triangles introduced in math.SG/0110169. Specifically, we establish a non-vanishing result for the invariants of symplectic four-manifolds, which leads to new proo…

Study shows most isometric submersions between Teichmüller spaces are forgetful.

100 years ago exactly, in 1906, Hartogs published a celebrated extension phenomenon (birth of Several Complex Variables), whose global counterpart was stated in full generality later by Osgood (1929): holomorphic functions in a connected neighborhood V(bD) of a connected boundary bD contained in C^n (n >= 2) do extend …

Geometrically, Legendrian surfaces related by surgery have related skein-valued cluster spaces.

We use contact fiber sums of open book decompositions to define an infinite hierarchy of filling obstructions for contact 3-manifolds, called planar k-torsion for nonnegative integers k, all of which cause the contact invariant in Embedded Contact Homology to vanish. Planar 0-torsion is equivalent to overtwistedness, w…

A simple characterization is given of open subsets of a complex surface that smoothly perturb to Stein open subsets. As applications, complex 2-space C^2 contains domains of holomorphy (Stein open subsets) that are exotic R^4's, and others homotopy equivalent to the 2-sphere but cut out by smooth, compact 3-manifolds. …

We generalize the familiar notions of overtwistedness and Giroux torsion in 3-dimensional contact manifolds, defining an infinite hierarchy of local filling obstructions called planar torsion, whose integer-valued order $k \ge 0$ can be interpreted as measuring a gradation in "degrees of tightness" of contact manifolds…

The state of a knot is defined in the realm of Chern-Simons topological quantum field theory as a holomorphic section on the SU(2) character manifold of the peripheral torus. We compute the asymptotics of the torus knot states in terms of the Alexander polynomial, the Reidemeister torsion and the Chern-Simons invariant…

Study shows how volume forms on degenerating varieties converge to a non-Archimedean measure.

Study Stein and Milnor fillings of links from surface singularities.

Proves upper bound on systolic ratio for circle fillings.

The paper constructs minimal coherent filling pairs on surfaces.

Classifies symplectic fillings of specific torus bundles.

Mathematical framework for brane quantization using SYZ mirror symmetry.

The paper classifies symplectic fillings of lens spaces and constructs cobordisms.

Computes A-polynomials of knots from Whitehead sister link fillings.

If a simple 3-manifold M admits a reducible and a toroidal Dehn filling, the distance between the filling slopes is known to be bounded by three. In this paper, we classify all manifolds which admit a reducible Dehn filling and a toroidal Dehn filling with distance 3.

We give three infinite families of examples of nonhyperbolic Dehn fillings on hyperbolic manifolds. A manifold in the first family admits two Dehn fillings of distance two apart, one of which is toroidal and annular, and the other is reducible and $\partial$-reducible. A manifold in the second family has boundary consi…

This article pursues the study of the knot state asymptotics in the large level limit initiated in "Knot sate Asymptotics I". As a main result, we prove the Witten asymptotic expansion conjecture for the Dehn fillings of the figure eight knot. The state of a knot is defined in the realm of Chern-Simons topological quan…

Study negative definite spin fillings of knot covers.

The paper proves finiteness of cosmetic fillings on a specific type of 3-manifold.

Study generalizes Lebesgue curves to new space-filling and fractal sets.

Let M be a simple 3-manifold with a toral boundary component partial_0 M. If Dehn filling M along partial_0 M one way produces a toroidal manifold and Dehn filling M along partial_0 M another way produces a boundary-reducible manifold, then we show that the absolute value of the intersection number on partial_0 M of th…

Characterizes Legendrian knots with exact Lagrangian fillings.

If a hyperbolic 3-manifold M admits a reducible and a finite Dehn filling, the distance between the filling slopes is known to be 1. This has been proved recently by Boyer, Gordon and Zhang. The first example of a manifold with two such fillings was given by Boyer and Zhang. In this paper, we give examples of hyperboli…

Affirmative proof that rank 3 3-manifolds have filling links.

Study filling links in 3-manifolds to understand their topological properties.

New method fills cluster seeds with exact Lagrangian structures.

Study shows connectedness of Bowditch boundary persists in long Dehn fillings.

This paper classifies and determines the length of the shortest filling pairs on a specific type of surface.

Let $M$ be an irreducible, compact, connected, orientable 3-manifold whose boundary is a torus. We show that if $M$ is hyperbolic, then it admits at most six finite/cyclic fillings of maximal distance 5. Further, the distance of a finite/cyclic filling to a cyclic filling is at most 2. If $M$ has a non-boundary-paralle…

Positive braids have endless filling possibilities.

Improved orderability in Dehn fillings without a hard condition.

Study on Legendrian knots and their non-orientable Lagrangian fillings.

Four-dimensional Einstein Dehn filling is impossible.