arXiv research

Computes homology of an obstruction chain complex in grid homology.

New proof of chain duality for simplicial complexes.

We define an algebraic group comprising symmetric chain complexes which captures the first two stages of the Cochran-Orr-Teichner solvable filtration of the knot concordance group in a single obstruction. To achieve this we impose additional structure on each chain complex which puts extra control on the fundamental gr…

We give new obstructions to the module structures arising in Heegaard Floer homology. As a corollary, we characterize the possible modules arising as the Heegaard Floer homology of an integer homology sphere with one-dimensional reduced Floer homology. Up to absolute grading shifts, there are only two. We use this coro…

New instanton invariants for rational homology spheres defined and shown to be functorial.

The first author's geometric Hopf invariant of a stable map $F:Σ^{\infty}X \to Σ^{\infty}Y$ is a stable ${\mathbb Z}_2$-equivariant map $h(F):Σ^{\infty}X \to Σ^{\infty}(Y \wedge Y)$ constructed by an explicit difference construction applied to $(F \wedge F)Δ_X - Δ_Y F$. The stable ${\mathbb Z}_2$-equivariant homotopy c…

This paper studies torsion obstructions to complex sections on manifolds.

Determines surgeries on chain links bounding rational homology balls using lattice-theoretic methods.

In 2003, Ozsváth and Szabó defined the concordance invariant $τ$ for knots in oriented 3-manifolds as part of the Heegaard Floer homology package. In 2011, Sarkar gave a combinatorial definition of $τ$ for knots in $S^3$ and a combinatorial proof that $τ$ gives a lower bound for the slice genus of a knot. Recently, Har…

Study on Klein bottle's cotangent bundle using contact homology.

Proves Massey's theorems on complex structure obstructions.

The paper shows examples of 2-complexes that can't be embedded in R^4, hiding obstructions in higher Milnor invariants.

On pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of even dimension $n\geq 4$, with everywhere vanishing (Fefferman-Graham) obstruction tensor, we construct a complex of conformally invariant differential operators. The complex controls the infinitesimal deformations of obstruction-flat structures, and, in the case of Riemannian signatur…

The paper develops obstructions for embedding 2D complexes into 4D space.

New curvature equations obstruct integrability of complex structures.

The (Fefferman-Graham) ambient obstruction tensor is a conformally invariant symmetric trace-free 2-tensor on even-dimensional Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. The conformal deformation complex is a differential complex related to infinitesimal deformations of conformal structure. We construct a conformally …

Applying a local Gauss-Bonnet formula for closed subanalytic sets to the complex analytic case, we obtain characterizations of the Euler obstruction of a complex analytic germ in terms of the Lipschitz-Killing curvatures and the Chern forms of its regular part. We also prove analogous results for the global Euler obstr…

Analyzes complex structure deformations using cohomology contraction methods.

The vanishing of Van Kampen's obstruction is known to be necessary and sufficient for embeddability of a simplicial n-complex into $R^{2n}$ for $n\neq 2$, and it was recently shown to be incomplete for $n=2$. We use algebraic-topological invariants of four-manifolds with boundary to introduce a sequence of higher embed…

Griffiths' first obstruction formula for vector bundles is derived.

Unified Morse-Bott-Smale chain complex, resolves well-definedness issue.

We obtain a formal obstruction, i.e. a necessary condition for the existence of polarised complex deformations of Kähler-Ricci solitons. This obstruction is expressed in terms of the harmonic part of the variation of the complex structure.

The study extends cobordism theory to complex sections, defining and calculating cobordism groups.

The study provides obstructions and examples for $p$-symplectic structures on complex manifolds.

Geometrically interprets a duality theorem linking cochain and chain complexes.

In this article, we derive a topological obstruction to the removal of a isolated degenerate complex tangent to an embedding of a 3-manifold into $\mathbb{C}^3$ (without affecting the structure of the remaining complex tangents). We demonstrate how the vanishing of this obstruction is both a necessary and sufficient co…

Study on symplectic structures and their deformations.

This article gives an exposition of the deformation theory for pairs $(X, E)$, where $X$ is a compact complex manifold and $E$ is a holomorphic vector bundle over $X$, adapting an analytic viewpoint à la Kodaira-Spencer. By introducing and exploiting an auxiliary differential operator, we derive the Maurer--Cartan equa…

Study algebraic obstructions to knot-like complex realizability.

In this paper, an obstruction against the integrability of certain infinitesimal solitonic deformations is given. Using this obstruction, we show that the complex projective spaces of even complex dimension are rigid as Ricci solitons although they have infinitesimal solitonic deformations.

We introduce some chain maps between Khovanov complexes. Each of the chain maps commutes with a chain homotopy map and a retraction maps which obtain a Reidemeister invariance of Khovanov homology.

In this paper, we introduce the notion of Reidemeister torsion for quasi-isomorphisms of based chain complexes over a field. We call a chain map a quasi-isomorphism if its induced homomorphism between homology is an isomorphism. Our notion of torsion generalizes the torsion of acyclic based chain complexes, and is a ch…

Embeddability of simplicial complex $[3]*K$ linked to $K$'s embeddability.

We answer the natural question: when are a regular Poisson structure along with a complex structure transverse to its symplectic leaves induced by generalized complex structure? The leafwise symplectic form and transverse complex structure determine an obstruction class in a certain cohomology, which vanishes if and on…

We study the obstruction to the exactness of the variational complex for a field theory on an affine bundle.

Fix an integer N>1. To each diagram of a link colored by 1,...,N, we associate a chain complex of graded matrix factorizations. We prove that the homotopy type of this chain complex is invariant under Reidemeister moves. When every component of the link is colored by 1, this chain complex is isomorphic to the chain com…

We give a new proof of the Morse Homology Theorem by constructing a chain complex associated to a Morse-Bott-Smale function that reduces to the Morse-Smale-Witten chain complex when the function is Morse-Smale and to the chain complex of smooth singular $N$-cube chains when the function is constant. We show that the ho…

This paper is the last paper in a series of five papers. Building on earlier papers in this series, we prove an analogue of Kuratowski's characterisation of graph planarity for three dimensions. More precisely, a simply connected 2-dimensional simplicial complex embeds in 3-space if and only if it has no obstruction fr…

Contradicts claims about Poincaré complexes and homology manifolds.

Study computes invariants on six-dimensional solvmanifolds, providing symplectic structure obstructions.

Develops formal moduli theory for splitting complex supermanifolds.

Revisits Koiso's rigid metrics on complex projective spaces.

Estimates covariance matrices using Markov chain Monte Carlo with improved sample complexity.

Study on rational projective planes with small index singularities.

New quantum code lacks sparse lift.

Reduces identity testing of reversible Markov chains to simpler symmetric chain tests.

Obstruction theory for complex bigraded differential algebras.

Introduce generalized Ueda obstruction classes for line bundles and apply them to non-semi-positivity.