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Classifies involutions on spherical 3-manifolds.

The paper develops a new theory for knots and 3-manifolds with involutions.

Study fiber-preserving, orientation-reversing involutions on Seifert fibered 3-manifolds.

Classifies Real line bundles with Real connections on manifolds with involution.

Study new involutivity theorems for Poisson quasi-Nijenhuis manifolds.

New invariants from Seiberg-Witten theory for 3-spheres with involution.

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

We consider 3-manifolds admitting the action of an involution such that its space of orbits is homeomorphic to $S^3.$ Such involutions are called hyperelliptic as the manifolds admitting such an action. We consider finite groups acting on 3-manifolds and containing hyperelliptic involutions whose fixed-point set has $r…

Develops Floer cohomology for 4-manifolds with involutions and links.

The paper develops a new Floer theory for 3-manifolds with involutions.

New invariants for 4-manifolds obstruct certain surface pairs.

We compute the involutive Heegaard Floer homology of the family of three-manifolds obtained by plumbings along almost-rational graphs. (This includes all Seifert fibered homology spheres.) We also study the involutive Heegaard Floer homology of connected sums of such three-manifolds, and explicitly determine the involu…

Finite groups with a hyperelliptic involution have a 2-rank of at most 4.

Study proves naturality and functoriality in a type of Heegaard Floer homology.

Paper constructs an invariant for a specific type of complex manifolds.

Paper extends Miyazawa's construction to more 4-manifolds, finding exotic involutions and embeddings.

The study classifies involutions on del Pezzo surfaces.

An involutive diffeomorphism $σ$ of a connected smooth manifold $M$ is called dissecting if the complement of its fixed point set is not connected. Dissecting involutions on a complete Riemannian manifold are closely related to constructive quantum field theory through the work of Dimock and Jaffe/Ritter on the constru…

Develops obstruction theory for a specific 4-manifold index.

New real invariants for 3-manifolds and links.

Study of real polytopes with group and symplectic involutions.

New geometric examples of involutions on Hilbert square K3 surfaces.

We give a bordered extension of involutive HF-hat and use it to give an algorithm to compute involutive HF-hat for general 3-manifolds. We also explain how the mapping class group action on HF-hat can be computed using bordered Floer homology. As applications, we prove that involutive HF-hat satisfies a surgery exact t…

We prove that certain involutions defined by Vogell and Burghelea-Fiedorowicz on the rational algebraic $K$-theory of spaces coincide. This gives a way to compute the positive and negative eigenspaces of the involution on rational homotopy groups of pseudoisotopy spaces from the involution on rational $S^{1}$-equivaria…

We investigate the existence of coordinate transformations which bring a given vector field on a manifold equipped with an involutive distribution into the form of a second-order differential equation field with parameters. We define associated connections and we give a coordinate-independent criterion for determining …

We prove a connected sum formula for involutive Heegaard Floer homology, and use it to study the involutive correction terms of connected sums. In particular, we give an example of a three-manifold with $\underline{d}(Y) \neq d(Y) \neq \overline{d}(Y)$. We also construct a homomorphism from the three-dimensional homolo…

The paper calculates involutive Heegaard Floer homology for specific 3-manifolds.

This paper describes an equivalence of the canonical category of $\mathbb N$-manifolds of degree $2$ with a category of involutive double vector bundles. More precisely, we show how involutive double vector bundles are in duality with double vector bundles endowed with a linear metric. We describe then how special sect…

The (4k+2)-dimensional Kervaire manifold is a closed, piecewise linear (PL) manifold with Kervaire invariant 1 and the same homology as the product of two (2k+1)-dimensional spheres. We show that a finite group of odd order acts freely on a Kervaire manifold if and only if it acts freely on the corresponding product of…

We calculate explicitly the Betti numbers of a class of barely G2 manifolds - that is, G2 manifolds that are realised as a product of a Calabi-Yau manifold and a circle, modulo an involution. The particular class which we consider are those spaces where the Calabi-Yau manifolds are complete intersections of hypersurfac…

We study complex Lagrangian submanifolds of a compact hyper-Kähler manifold and prove two results: (a) that an involution of a hyper-Kähler manifold which is antiholomorphic with respect to one complex structure and which acts non-trivially on the corresponding symplectic form always has a fixed point locus which is co…

We introduce hyperelliptic simplified (more generally, directed) broken Lefschetz fibrations, which is a generalization of hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations. We construct involutions on the total spaces of such fibrations of genus $g\geq 3$ and extend these involutions to the four-manifolds obtained by blowing up the …

We show that a certain involution on the well known homology sphere (the boundary of the Mazur manifold) induces a nontrivial homomorphism on its Heegard-Floer homology groups (recently defined by Ozsvath and Szabo). We discuss a possible application of this to constructing exotic smooth structures on 4-manifolds.

Real bordered Floer homology computes 3-manifolds with involution.

We study K3 surfaces with a pair of commuting involutions that are non-symplectic with respect to two anti-commuting complex structures that are determined by a hyper-Kähler metric. One motivation for this paper is the role of such $\mathbb{Z}^2_2$-actions for the construction of $G_2$-manifolds. We find a large class …

The paper proves conditions for 2-torus manifolds to be equivariantly formal.

Study equivariant 4-genus of knots in symmetric 4-manifolds.

We provide explicit, simple, geometric formulas for free involutions rho of Euclidean spheres that are not conjugate to the antipodal involution. Therefore the quotient S^n/rho is a manifold that is homotopically equivalent but not diffeomorphic to RP^n. We use these formulas for constructing explicit non-trivial eleme…

Scroll structures on solutions of 4D integrable equations are involutive and governed by a dispersionless hierarchy.

In this paper, we classify smooth 5-manifolds with fundamental group isomorphic to $\z/2$ and universal cover diffeomorphic to $S^2 \times S^3$. This gives a classification of smooth free involutions on $S^2 \times S^3$ up to conjugation.

The study classifies manifolds realized as orbit spaces of non-free Z2^k actions.

On a compact oriented four-manifold with an orientation preserving involution c, we count solutions of Seiberg-Witten equations, which are moreover symmetrical in relation to c, to construct "real" Seiberg-Witten invariants. Using Taubes' results, we prove that on a symplectic almost complex manifold with an antisymple…

New non-cobordant hyperbolic manifolds found in certain dimensions.

In this paper, we investigate existence of inequivalent smooth structures on closed smooth non-orientable 4-manifolds building upon results of Akbulut, Cappell-Shaneson, Fintushel-Stern, Gompf, and Stolz. We add to the number of known constructions and provide new examples of exotic manifolds that are obtained as an ap…

New invariants detect corks obstructing homology ball extensions.

The paper geometrizes N-manifolds using symmetric vector bundles.

We prove that the canonical 4-dimensional surgery problems can be solved after passing to a double cover. This contrasts the long-standing conjecture about the validity of the topological surgery theorem for arbitrary fundamental groups (without passing to a cover). As a corollary, the surgery conjecture is reformulate…

In this note we prove that the Borel class of representations of 3-manifold groups to PGL(n,C) is preserved under Cartan involution up to sign. For representations to PGL(3,C) this is implied by a more general result of E. Falbel and Q. Wang, however our proof appears to be much shorter for that special case.