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We show that on a nonorientable surface of genus at least 7 any power of a Dehn twist is equal to a single commutator in the mapping class group and the same is true, under additional assumptions, for the twist subgroup, and also for the extended mapping class group of an orientable surface of genus at least 3.

2010-07-01abs ↗pdf ↗

For any unoriented loop on a compact connected oriented surface with one boundary component, the generalized Dehn twist along the loop is defined as an automorphism of the completed group ring of the fundamental group of the surface. If the loop is simple, this is the usual right handed Dehn twist, in particular realiz…

2011-04-12abs ↗pdf ↗

The Gluck twist preserves the diffeomorphism type of certain satellite 2-knots.

problem Preserving the diffeomorphism type of satellite 2-knots under the Gluck twist.
method Using new descriptions of satellite 2-knots, the paper shows that the Gluck twist does not change the diffeomorphism type of certain satellite 2-knots in three ways.
result The Gluck twist preserves the diffeomorphism type of certain satellite 2-knots.

We present the alternative topological twisting of N=4 Yang-Mills, in which the path integral is dominated not by instantons, but by flat connections of the COMPLEXIFIED gauge group. The theory is nontrivial on compact orientable four-manifolds with nonpositive Euler number, which are necessarily not simply connected. …

1995-06-01abs ↗pdf ↗

A homeomorphism of a 3-manifold M is said to be Dehn twists on the boundary when its restriction to the boundary of M is isotopic to the identity on the complement of a collection of disjoint simple closed curves in the boundary of M. In this paper, we give various results about such collections of curves and the assoc…

2006-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

There exists a (relatively minimal) genus g Lefschetz fibration with only one singular fiber over a closed (Riemann) surface of genus h iff g>2 and h>1. The singular fiber can be chosen to be reducible or irreducible. Other results are that every Dehn twist on a closed surface of genus at least three is a product of tw…

1998-12-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Checkerboard surfaces in alternating link complements are used frequently to determine information about the link. However, when many crossings are added to a single twist region of a link diagram, the geometry of the link complement stabilizes (approaches a geometric limit), but a corresponding checkerboard surface in…

2014-10-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Casson and Gordon gave the rectangle condition for strong irreducibility of Heegaard splittings [1]. We give a parity condition for irreducibility of Heegaard splittings of irreducible manifolds. As an application, we give examples of non-stabilized Heegaard splittings by doing a single Dehn twist.

2008-12-01abs ↗pdf ↗

We use technology from sutured manifold theory and the theory of Heegaard splittings to relate genus reducing crossing changes on knots in S^3 to twists on surfaces arising in circular Heegaard splittings for knot complements. In a separate paper, currently in preparation, we prove that these circular Heegaard splittin…

2012-10-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that the volumes of certain hyperbolic A-adequate links can be bounded (above and) below in terms of two diagrammatic quantities: the twist number and the number of certain alternating tangles in an A-adequate diagram. We then restrict our attention to plat closures of certain braids, a rich family of links who…

2013-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Knots in Euclidean space which may be parameterized by a single cosine function in each coordinate are called Lissajous knots. We show that twist knots are Lissajous knots if and only if their Arf invariants are zero. We further prove that all 2-bridge knots and all (3,q)-torus knots have Lissajous projections.

2006-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows how any group can be fundamental of a non-orientable 4-manifold with exotic structure.

problem Realizing any finitely presented group as the fundamental group of a non-orientable 4-manifold with exotic structure.
method Performing a Gluck twist to obtain an exotic smooth structure, and using 2-covers to stabilize the structure.
result Any finitely presented group can be realized as the fundamental group of a non-orientable 4-manifold with exotic structure.

Modifying the method of [21], we compute the perturbed HF+HF^+ for some special classes of fibered three manifolds in the second highest spinc^c-structures Sg2S_{g-2}. The special classes considered in this paper include the mapping tori of Dehn twists along a single non-separating curve and along a transverse pair of c…

2009-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

How do Seifert surgeries on hyperbolic knots arise from those on torus knots? We approach this question from a networking viewpoint. The Seifert Surgery Network is a 1-dimensional complex whose vertices correspond to Seifert surgeries; two vertices are connected by an edge if one Seifert surgery is obtained from the ot…

2013-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers prove twists can make surfaces parabolic even with large cuff lengths.

problem Making surfaces parabolic with large cuff lengths and twists.
method Choosing lengths and applying twists to make surfaces parabolic.
result For any sequence of positive numbers, there is a choice of lengths such that twists make the surface parabolic.

A modular object in a symmetric monoidal bicategory is a Frobenius algebra object whose product and coproduct are biadjoint, equipped with a braided structure and a compatible twist, satisfying rigidity, ribbon, pivotality, and modularity conditions. We prove that the oriented 3-dimensional bordism bicategory of 1-, 2-…

2014-11-04abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper shows that there are symplectic four-manifolds M with the following property: a single isotopy class of smooth embedded two-spheres in M contains infinitely many Lagrangian submanifolds, no two of which are isotopic as Lagrangian submanifolds. The examples are constructed using a special class of symplectic …

1998-03-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Extends diffusion-based Schrödinger bridge models to handle time-dependent potentials.

problem Approximating optimal transport dynamics between two boundary distributions with a twisted Brownian motion reference.
method Introduces Twisted Schrödinger Bridge Matching (TSBM) using the Iterative Markovian Fitting (IMF) paradigm, incorporating a gradient-dependent bridge-matching loss.
result Improves trajectory inference across high-dimensional settings, including crowd navigation and single-cell data.

B. Wilking introduced the dual foliation associated to a metric foliation in a Riemannian manifold with nonnegative sectional curvature, and proved that when the curvature is strictly positive, the dual foliation contains a single leaf, so that any two points in the ambient space can be joined by a horizontal curve. We…

2012-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Study singular fibers in genus 2 algebraic fibrations and their monodromy factorizations.

problem Classify singular fibers in genus 2 algebraic fibrations and relate them to Lefschetz fibrations.
method Analyze four families of hypersurface singularities in C^3, determine resolutions, and find flat deformations into simpler pieces.
result Establish a dictionary between configurations of curves and monodromy factorizations for some genus 2 fibrations.

The paper introduces a method to deform submanifolds in Euclidean space using Drinfel'd twists.

problem Constructing noncommutative deformations of submanifolds in Euclidean space.
method Using Drinfel'd twist deformation of differential geometry, the paper proposes a general procedure to construct noncommutative deformations of an embedded submanifold.
result The method allows for consistent projection of connections and can be applied to various submanifolds like cylinders and hyperboloids.

Paper constructs Chern character for higher twists and shows isomorphism between K-theory and cohomology.

problem Mapping higher twisted K-theory to higher twisted cohomology.
method Constructing Chern character for higher twists and showing isomorphism.
result Chern character gives isomorphism between higher twisted K-theory and higher twisted cohomology.

Construct noncommutative deformations of algebraic submanifolds in R^n.

problem Deforming algebraic submanifolds in noncommutative geometry.
method Using twisted differential geometry and Drinfel'd twists, constructing noncommutative deformations of algebraic submanifolds.
result Explicitly worked out deformations of quadrics in R^3.

In this paper, we develop differential twisted K-theory and define a twisted Chern character on twisted K-theory which depends on a choice of connection and curving on the twisting gerbe. We also establish the general Riemann-Roch theorem in twisted K-theory and find some applications in the study of twisted K-theory o…

2007-08-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on singular twisted links and virtual braids, extending knot theory concepts.

problem Extending knot theory concepts to singular twisted links and virtual braids.
method Definition and analysis of singular twisted virtual braids and their monoid structure.
result Presentation of monoid and reduced monoid for singular twisted virtual braids.

This is the first in a series of papers constructing geometric models of twisted differential K-theory. In this paper we construct a model of even twisted differential K-theory when the underlying topological twist represents a torsion class. By differential twists we will mean smooth U(1)-gerbes with connection, and w…

2016-02-06abs ↗pdf ↗

A virtual link can be understood as a link in a trivial I-bundle over an orientable compact surface with genus. A twisted virtual link is a link in a trivial I-bundle over a not-necessarily orientable compact surface. A twisted virtual birack is an algebraic structure with axioms derived from the twisted virtual Reidem…

2011-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗