arXiv research

Study of origamis' singularities for groups of prime-power order.

In this paper we find a unique normal form for the symplectic matrix representation of the conjugacy class of a prime order element of the mapping-class group. We find a set of generators for the fundamental group of a surface with a conformal automorphism of prime order which reflects the action the automorphism in an…

Proves rigidity of SU(2) and SO(3) quantum representations at prime levels.

Classifies doodles into prime and super prime types, describing them with doodle codes.

Quantum representations of mapping class groups are locally rigid at prime levels.

This paper solves the structure of link concordance groups, proving they are infinitely generated.

Any knot group is the image of the group of a prime knot by a homomorphism that preserves peripheral structure. In fact, there are infinitely many such prime knots. A related partial order on knots is defined, and its properties are discussed.

We show that the Frölicher spectral sequence of a complex parallelizable solvmanifold is degenerate at $E_{2}$-term. For a semi-direct product $G=\C^{n}\ltimes_φN$ of Lie-groups with lattice $Γ=Γ^{\prime}\ltimes Γ^{\prime\prime}$ such that $N$ is a nilpotent Lie-group with a left-invariant complex structure and $φ$ is …

Our main result is that the image of the quantum representation of a central extension of the mapping class group of the genus $g\geq 3$ closed orientable surface at a prime $p\geq 5$ is a Zariski dense discrete subgroup of some higher rank algebraic semi-simple Lie group $\mathbb G_p$ defined over $\Q$. As an applicat…

Study of manifolds with prime cyclic group actions and curvature properties.

We discuss techniques for analysing the structure of the group obtained by reducing the image of the Burau representation of the braid group modulo a prime. The main tools are a certain sesquilinear form first introduced by Squier and consideration of the action of the group on a Euclidean building.

We show that a rank two finite group G admits a finite G-CW-complex X homotopy equivalent to a sphere, with rank one prime power isotropy, if and only if G does not p'-involve Qd(p) for any odd prime p. This follows from a more general theorem which allows us to construct a finite G-CW-complex by gluing together a give…

A partial order on the set of prime knots can be defined by the existence of an epimorphism between knot groups. We prove that all the prime knots with up to $6$ crossings are minimal. We also show that each fibered knot with the irreducible Alexander polynomial is minimal.

Study shows diffeomorphism groups of certain 3-manifolds retract to isometry groups.

The goal of this paper is to obtain restrictions on the prime to p quotient of the étale fundamental group of a smooth projective variety in characteristic $p\ge 0$. The results are analogues some theorems in the study of Kähler groups. Our first main result is that such groups are indecomposable under coproduct. The s…

The study proves CR structures on specific three-manifolds are equivalent to standard structures.

The paper removes a condition for the Nielsen realisation problem using equivariant Poincaré duality.

In this article we develop the theory of residually finite rationally $p$ (RFR$p$) groups, where $p$ is a prime. We first prove a series of results about the structure of finitely generated RFR$p$ groups (either for a single prime $p$, or for infinitely many primes), including torsion-freeness, a Tits alternative, and …

Classifies $C_p$-surfaces using equivariant surgery methods.

Classifies prime algebraic tangles up to 14 crossings.

Let K be a knot in the 3-sphere with 2-fold branched covering space M. If for some prime p congruent to 3 mod 4 the p-torsion in the first homology of M is cyclic with odd exponent, then K is of infinite order in the knot concordance group. As one application, recall that the n-twisted double of an arbitrary knot has o…

We consider a purely algebraic result. Then given a circle or cyclic group of prime order action on a manifold, we will use it to estimate the lower bound of the number of fixed points. We also give an obstruction to the existence of $\mathbb{Z}_p$ action on manifolds with isolated fixed points when $p$ is a prime.

This is an expository article of our work on analogies between knot theory and algebraic number theory. We shall discuss foundational analogies between knots and primes, 3-manifolds and number rings mainly from the group-theoretic point of view.

We study the eta invariants of compact flat spin manifolds of dimension n with holonomy group cyclic of odd prime order p. We find explicit expressions for the twisted and relative eta invariants and show that the reduced eta invariant is always an integer, except in a single case, when p=n=3. We use the expressions ob…

Given a genus two Heegaard splitting for a non-prime 3-manifold, we define a special subcomplex of the disk complex for one of the handlebodies of the splitting, and then show that it is contractible. As applications, first we show that the complex of Haken spheres for the splitting is contractible, which refines the r…

Riera proved at arXiv:1412.6964 that the diffeomorphism group of particular compact manifolds are not Jordan by exhibiting subgroups isomorphic to extra-special $p$-groups of exponent $p$ for primes $p$ satisfying some conditions. Generalising the methods of that paper, we construct a compact connected smooth real mani…

The paper determines the maximal order of translation groups in abelian differentials for various genera.

Levine defined the rational algebraic knot concordance group and proved that each nontrivial element is of order two, of order four, or of infinite order. The determination of the order of an element depends on a p-adic analysis for all primes p. Here we develop effective means to determine the order of any element tha…

New curves share invariant up to any fixed order.

The paper characterizes simply connected quandles using cocycles with prime values.

Study spectral analysis on lens spaces, proving isospectral lens spaces with prime order fundamental groups.

Let $\widetilde{S}$ be a closed (compact without boundary) oriented surface with genus $g$, and $G$ be a group isomorphic to $$, where $p$ is a prime integer. An action of $G$ on $S$ is a pair $(\widetilde{S},f)$, where $f$ is a representation of $G$ in the group of orientation preserving autohomeom…

Let $p$ be an odd prime. We construct a non-abelian extension $Γ$ of $S^1$ by $Z/p \times Z/p$, and prove that any finite subgroup of $Γ$ acts freely and smoothly on $S^{2p-1} \times S^{2p-1}$. In particular, for each odd prime $p$ we obtain free smooth actions of infinitely many non-metacyclic rank two $p$-groups on $…

Study invariants of $\mathbb{Z}/p$-homology 3-spheres from abelianization of mapping class groups.

Let K be a an alternating prime knot in the 3-sphere. We investigate the category of flypes between reduced alternating diagrams for K. As a consequence, we show that any odd prime order action on K is isotopic through maps of pairs to a single flype. This implies that for any odd prime order action on K there is eithe…

Let $n \geq 3$. In this paper, we study the problem of whether a given finite group $G$ embeds in a quotient of the form $B_n/Γ_k(P_n)$, where $B_n$ is the $n$-string Artin braid group, $k \in \{2, 3\}$, and $\{Γ_l(P_n)\}_{l\in \mathbb{N}}$ is the lower central series of the $n$-string pure braid group $P_n$. Previous …

The Burau representation of 3-strand braid group modulo p is determined and shown to be faithful for small p.

Let $K$ be a prime knot in $S^3$ and $G(K)=π_1(S^3-K)$ the knot group. We write $K_1 \geq K_2$ if there exists a surjective homomorphism from $G(K_1)$ onto $G(K_2)$. In this paper, we determine this partial order on the set of prime knots with up to 11 crossings. There exist such 801 prime knots and then $640,800$ shou…

Algebraic methods prove knot primality using Floer homology.

Study shows periodic cohomology of non-orientable surface mapping class groups for odd primes.

Let $f\colon M\to N$ be a continuous map between closed irreducible graph manifolds with infinite fundamental group. Perron and Shalen showed that if $f$ induces a homology equivalence on all finite covers, then $f$ is in fact homotopic to a homeomorphism. Their proof used the statement that every graph manifold is fin…

We decompose into irreducible factors the ${\rm SU}(2)$ Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev representations of the mapping class group of a genus $2$ surface when the level is $p=4r$ and $p=2r^2$ with $r$ an odd prime and when $p=2r_1r_2$ with $r_1$, $r_2$ two distinct odd primes. Some partial generalizations in higher genus are…

The absolute Galois group of 3-manifolds determines their structure up to homeomorphism.

We construct finitely generated groups with strong fixed point properties. Let $\mathcal{X}_{ac}$ be the class of Hausdorff spaces of finite covering dimension which are mod-$p$ acyclic for at least one prime $p$. We produce the first examples of infinite finitely generated groups $Q$ with the property that for any act…

We present a detailed description of a fundamental group algorithm based on Forman's combinatorial version of Morse theory. We use this algorithm in a classification problem of prime knots up to 14 crossings.

In this paper, we prove the Farrell-Jones Conjecture for the solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups with coefficients in an additive category. We also extend our results to groups of the form, Z[1/p] semidirect product with any virtually cyclic group, where p is a prime number.

We define homotopy-theoretic invariants of knots in prime 3-manifolds. Fix a knot J in a prime 3-manifold M. Call a knot K in M concordant to J if it cobounds a properly embedded annulus with J in MxI, and call K J-characteristic if there is a degree-one map f:M --> M throwing K onto J and mapping M-K to M-J. These inv…

The paper determines modular cohomotopy groups up to extensions using classical and unstable homotopy methods.