arXiv research

Study pinched submanifolds, proving homology vanishing results.

Paper proves vanishing homology groups for certain hyperbolic groups.

Constructs Morse homology for complex algebraic varieties.

New obstructions show links with vanishing Milnor invariants may not be concordant to homology boundary links.

The paper extends a vanishing theorem for hypersurfaces in aspherical manifolds.

Floer homology vanishes on certain 3-manifolds formed by knots and their mirrors.

Study Khovanov homology of positive links and L-space knots, finding vanishing conditions.

Characterizes a specific homology group for certain graphs.

Paper studies homology and cohomology of Temperley-Lieb algebra TL_n(a).

Study examines homology of contact CR-submanifolds in complex Euclidean space.

Study shows torsion homology growth vanishes for certain free-by-cyclic groups.

The paper examines how edge subdivisions affect the vanishing of $L^2$-homology in Coxeter groups.

Proves conjecture linking WRT invariants and homological blocks for plumbed 3-manifolds.

The paper uses symplectic homology to study 3D Besse manifolds with vanishing first Chern class.

Homology growth of specific mapping tori vanishes for certain groups.

We study a coarse homology theory with prescribed growth conditions. For a finitely generated group G with the word length metric this homology theory turns out to be related to amenability of G. We characterize vanishing of a certain fundamental class in our homology in terms of an isoperimetric inequality on G and sh…

We consider various homological operations on homology of quandles. We introduce the notion of quandle partial derivatives, and extreme chains on which appropriate partial derivatives vanish. Extreme chains yield homological operations. We also consider the degree one homology operations created using elements of the q…

Contradicts claims about Poincaré complexes and homology manifolds.

Paper proves triple linking form vanishes under specific conditions.

The paper constructs 3-manifolds with co-orientable taut foliations but no foliations with vanishing Euler class.

We derive a new exact sequence in the hat-version of Heegaard Floer homology. As a consequence we see a functorial connection between the invariant of Legendrian knots and the contact element. As an application we derive two vanishing results of the contact element making it possible to easily read off its vanishing ou…

In this paper we will make use of the Mackaay-Vaz approach to the universal $\mathfrak{sl}_3$-homology to define a family of cycles (called $β_3$-invariants) which are transverse braid invariants. This family includes Wu's $ψ_{3}$-invariant. Furthermore, we analyse the vanishing of the homology classes of the $β_3$-inv…

New method identifies vanishing arcs for curve singularities.

We recently defined an invariant of contact manifolds with convex boundary in Kronheimer and Mrowka's sutured monopole Floer homology theory. Here, we prove that there is an isomorphism between sutured monopole Floer homology and sutured Heegaard Floer homology which identifies our invariant with the contact class defi…

For any link of two components in an integral homology sphere, we define an instanton Floer homology whose Euler characteristic is the linking number between the components of the link. We relate this Floer homology to the Kronheimer-Mrowka instanton Floer homology of knots. We also show that, for two-component links i…

New results on homology torsion growth for various groups.

The contact invariant is an element in the monopole Floer homology groups of an oriented closed three manifold canonically associated to a given contact structure. A non-vanishing contact invariant implies that the original contact structure is tight, so understanding its behavior under symplectic cobordisms is of inte…

We show that uniformly finite homology of products of $n$ trees vanishes in all degrees except degree $n$, where it is infinite dimensional. Our method is geometric and applies to several large scale homology theories, including almost equivariant homology and controlled coarse homology. As an application we determine …

We use SO(3) gauge theory to define a functor from a category of unoriented webs and foams to the category of finite-dimensional vector spaces over the field of two elements. We prove a non-vanishing theorem for this SO(3) instanton homology of webs, using Gabai's sutured manifold theory. It is hoped that the non-vanis…

We use contact handle decompositions and a stabilization process to compute the cylindrical contact homology of a subcritical Stein-fillable contact manifold with vanishing first Chern class, and show that it is completely determined by the homology of a subcritical Stein-filling of the contact manifold.

Geometric representations of cycles in quandle homology theory are given in terms of colored knot diagrams. Abstract knot diagrams are generalized to diagrams with exceptional points which, when colored, correspond to degenerate cycles. Bounding chains are realized, and used to obtain equivalence moves for homologous c…

We construct closed symplectic manifolds for which spherical classes generate arbitrarily large subspaces in 2-homology, such that the first Chern class and cohomology class of the symplectic form both vanish on all spherical classes. We construct both Kaehler and non-Kaehler examples, and show independence of the cond…

Floer homology detects taut foliations in rational homology spheres.

The study examines flat S1-bundles and their homology groups, focusing on analytic vs smooth conditions.

We define a grid presentation for singular links i.e. links with a finite number of rigid transverse double points. Then we use it to generalize link Floer homology to singular links. Besides the consistency of its definition, we prove that this homology is acyclic under some conditions which naturally make its Euler c…

It is a natural consequence of fundamental properties of the Casson invariant that the Rokhlin invariant of an amphichiral integral homology 3-sphere M vanishes. In this paper, we give a new direct proof of this vanishing property. For such an M, we construct a manifold pair (Y,Q) of dimensions 6 and 3 equipped with so…

Homological blocks match Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants for Seifert fibered 3-spheres.

The study explores Legendrian invariants and half Giroux torsion in contact structures.

Real Milnor fibres become contractible after attaching handles, matching classical results.

Curvature of 2D subsets preserved in their space.

Let L be a nonunimodular definite lattice. Using a theorem of Elkies we show that whether L embeds in the standard definite lattice of the same rank is completely determined by a collection of lattice correction terms, one for each metabolizing subgroup of the discriminant group. As a topological application this gives…

We derive symmetries and adjunction inequalities of the knot Floer homology groups which appear to be especially interesting for homologically essential knots. Furthermore, we obtain an adjunction inequality for cobordism maps in knot Floer homologies. We demonstrate the adjunction inequalities and symmetries in explic…

Proves SU(2) representations for certain 3-spheres with embedded tori.

We show that on any closed contact manifold of dimension greater than 1 a contact structure with vanishing contact homology can be constructed. The basic idea for the construction comes from Giroux. We use a special open book decomposition for spheres. The page is the cotangent bundle of a sphere and the monodromy is g…

Contact surgeries yield algebraically overtwisted manifolds.

Study shows infinite-rank summand in homology concordance group of knots.

We study the flux homomorphism for closed forms of arbitrary degree, with special emphasis on volume forms and on symplectic forms. The volume flux group is an invariant of the underlying manifold, whose non-vanishing implies that the manifold resembles one with a circle action with homologically essential orbits.

Given a contact structure on a closed, oriented three-manifold $Y$, we describe an invariant which takes values in the three-manifold's Floer homology $\HFa$. This invariant vanishes for overtwisted contact structures and is non-zero for Stein fillable ones. The construction uses of Giroux's interpretation of contact s…