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The paper constructs new rational homology 3-spheres bounding rational homology 4-balls.

The present paper attempts to show an alternative approach with regards to rational Pythagorean-hodograph (PH) curves and especially more natural approach for rational PH helices (i.e. rational helices). It exploits geometric features of rational helices to obtain a simpler construction of these curves and apply this t…

Classifies real rational knots and curves in a specific quadric space.

New method for simplifying knots with specific properties.

The study calculates the average genus of rational knots and links.

We note that a rational $3$-tangle diagram is obtained from a combination of four generators. There is an algorithm to distinguish two rational $3$-tangle diagrams up to isotopy. However, there is no perfect classification about rational $3$-tangle diagrams such as the classification of rational $2$-tangle diagrams cor…

New rational band moves simplify knot classification.

Classifies surgeries on torus knots and cables that bound rational homology balls.

Jones polynomial coincidences explored for rational knots.

Lower bounds on rational slice genus using Heegaard Floer invariants.

This paper gives two new combinatorial topological proofs of the classification of rational tangles. Each proof rests on an elegant lemma showing that rational tangles are isotopic to canonical alternating rational tangles. The first proof defines the tangle fraction from the canonical form and uses flyping to prove in…

Study connects taffy pulling, fractions, and rational tangles.

New knots show linear independence in slice concordance.

The paper proves that rational concordance of double twist knots is reciprocal.

In this paper, we introduce a rational $τ$ invariant for rationally null-homologous knots in contact 3-manifolds with nontrivial Ozsváth-Szabó contact invariants. Such an invariant is an upper bound for the sum of rational Thurston-Bennequin invariant and the rational rotation number of the Legendrian representatives o…

This paper is an introduction to rational tangles, rational knots and links and their applications to DNA. The paper can be read as an introduction to our more technical papers on rational tangles (math.GT/0311499) and on rational knots (math.GT/0212011). The present paper includes a self-contained account of the tangl…

New findings on knots that are both topologically and rationally slice.

The study explores pinwheels in symplectic surfaces and non-squeezing of rational homology balls.

Classifies torus bundles bounding 4-manifolds with rational homology.

Study shows conditions for rational ellipticity of manifolds with symmetries.

In this paper, We introduce an invariant of rational n-tangles which is obtained from the Kauffman bracket. It forms a vector with Laurent polynomial entries. We prove that the invariant classifies the rational 2-tangles and the reduced alternating rational 3-tangles. We conjecture that it classifies the rational 3-tan…

We give a characterization of closed, simply connected, rationally elliptic 6-manifolds in terms of their rational cohomology rings and a partial classification of their real cohomology rings. We classify rational, real and complex homotopy types of closed, simply connected, rationally elliptic 7-manifolds. We give par…

New 3-manifolds bound rational 4-balls through specific operations.

New knot invariant λ bounds rational unknotting.

New proof for curved 3-cohom manifold rational ellipticity.

New 4-manifold accounts for rationally slice knots.

We give a complete classification of the spherical 3-manifolds that bound smooth rational homology 4-balls. Furthermore, we determine the order of spherical 3-manifolds in the rational homology cobordism group of rational homology 3-spheres. To this end, we use constraints for 3-manifolds to bound rational homology bal…

We introduce the notion of rational links in the solid torus. We show that rational links in the solid torus are fully characterized by rational tangles, and hence by the continued fraction of the rational tangle. Furthermore, we generalize this by giving an infinite family of ambient isotopy invariants of colored diag…

We formulate the equivalence problem, in the sense of E. Cartan, for families of minimal rational curves on uniruled projective manifolds. An important invariant of this equivalence problem is the variety of minimal rational tangents. We study the case when varieties of minimal rational tangents at general points form …

Homological stability fails for Cremona groups, rational varieties, and function fields.

We construct normal rationally connected varieties (of arbitrarily large dimension) not containing any smooth rational curves.

In 1973, J. Cheeger and J. Simons raised the following question that still remains open and is known as the Rational Simplex Problem: Given a geodesic simplex in the spherical 3-space so that all of its interior dihedral angles are rational multiples of $π$, is it true that its volume is a rational multiple of the volu…

Rational neural networks approximate functions more efficiently with less depth.

Survey on minimal rational curves and their geometric structures.

The study of symplectic fillings for rational cuspidal curves.

New metrics compare rational spectra using optimal transport.

Study shows no smooth embeddings of rational homology balls into complex projective plane.

Method to create rational Seifert surfaces for knots in Lens space.

We consider the dynamics of rational semigroups (semigroups of rational maps) on the Riemann sphere. We provide proof that a random backward iteration algorithm to draw the pictures of the Julia sets, previously proven to work in the context of iteration of a rational map of degree two or more, extends to finitely gene…

Study of rational curves in complex manifolds with specific normal bundles.

The paper characterizes Conway-Coxeter friezes using rational links.

Rationally null-homologous links in Seifert fibered spaces may be represented combinatorially via labeled diagrams. We introduce an additional condition on a labeled link diagram and prove that it is equivalent to the existence of a rational Seifert surface for the link. In the case when this condition is satisfied, we…

Satake has constructed compactifications of symmetric spaces D=G/K which (under a condition called geometric rationality by Casselman) yield compactifications of the corresponding locally symmetric spaces. The different compactifications depend on the choice of a representation of G. One example is the Baily-Borel-Sata…

There is a natural way to associate with a transformation of an isotopy class of rational tangles to another, an element of the modular group. The correspondence between the isotopy classes of rational tangles and rational numbers follows, as well as the relation with the braid group $B_3$.

Rational ellipticity proven for $G$-manifolds with specific quotient properties.

We consider projective rational strong Calabi dream surfaces: projective smooth rational surfaces which admit a constant scalar curvature Kähler metric for every Kähler class. We show that there are only two such rational surfaces, namely the projective plane and the quadric surface. In particular, we show that all rat…

The paper studies degenerations of rational maps and their limits as geometrically finite rational maps.

Fintushel and Stern showed that the Brieskorn sphere $Σ(2,3,7)$ bounds a rational homology ball, while its non-trivial Rokhlin invariant obstructs it from bounding an integral homology ball. It is known that their argument can be modified to show that the figure-eight knot is rationally slice, and we use this fact to p…