arXiv research

Characterizes fractional Dehn twist coefficient and proves slice-Bennequin inequality.

We use recently introduced Rasmussen invariant to find knots that are topologically locally-flatly slice but not smoothly slice. We note that this invariant can be used to give a combinatorial proof of the slice-Bennequin inequality. Finally, we compute the Rasmussen invariant for quasipositive knots and show that most…

We derive a relative version of the slicing Bennequin inequalities for cobordant Legendrian knots, and review a few proofs of the result.

Study efficient iterative method for distribution matching using sliced optimal transport.

The paper provides a new inequality for 4-manifolds and uses it to study knot sliceness and symplectic embeddings.

Lower bounds for a knot invariant are derived using computations and cobordism inequality.

It is known that the linking form on the 2-cover of slice knots has a metabolizer. We show that several weaker conditions, or some other conditions related to sliceness, do not imply the existence of a metabolizer. We then show how the Rudolph-Bennequin inequality can be used indirectly to prove that some knots are not…

Establishes a Penrose-type inequality for static spacetimes.

We apply Heegaard-Floer homology theory to establish generalized slicing Bennequin inequalities closely related to a recent result of T. Mrowka and Y. Rollin proved using Seiberg-Witten monopoles.

Study inequalities between knot invariants and compute new bounds.

Proves equality in Minkowski inequality for static, flat manifolds.

The study proves geometric inequalities for static convex domains in static rotationally symmetric spaces.

We define Casson-Gordon sigma-invariants for links and give a lower bound of the slice genus of a link in terms of these invariants. We study as an example a family of two component links of genus h and show that their slice genus is h, whereas the Murasugi-Tristram inequality does not obstruct this link from bounding …

New bounds on HOMFLY polynomial for homogeneous links.

The paper bounds the genus of surfaces in four-manifolds with indefinite forms.

The paper finds a new lower bound on the genus of surfaces in indefinite 4-manifolds.

The paper conjectures a 4D characterization of tight contact structures and proves it for certain cases.

Paper proves stronger Penrose inequality with matter density.

Proves stability of spacetime Penrose inequality for spherical symmetric initial data.

Introduces a universal Bochner formula for scalar curvature.

A new algorithm speeds up elliptical slice sampling for truncated multivariate normals.

We consider several geometric inequalities in general relativity involving mass, area, charge, and angular momentum for asymptotically hyperboloidal initial data. We show how to reduce each one to the known maximal (or time symmetric) case in the asymptotically flat setting, whenever a geometrically motivated system of…

The study explores deep and shallow slice knots in 4-manifolds, linking them to conjectures and proving existence and nonexistence results.

New examples show inequalities can be sharp even when self-linking and genus differ.

The paper proves new inequalities in hyperbolic space using Euclidean methods.

This paper concerns conditions related to the first finite singularity time of a Ricci flow solution on a closed manifold. In particular, we provide a systematic approach to the mean value inequality method, suggested by N. Le and F. He. We also display a close connection between this method and time slice analysis of …

By considering suitable axially symmetric slices on the Kruskal spacetime, we construct counterexamples to a recent version of the Penrose inequality in terms of so-called generalized apparent horizons.

Paper proves a symplectic inequality using trisections and contact geometry.

Study proves inequality linking black hole properties and angular momentum.

We consider inverse curvature flows in warped product manifolds, which are constrained subject to local terms of lower order, namely the radial coordinate and the generalized support function. Under various assumptions we prove longtime existence and smooth convergence to a coordinate slice. We apply this result to ded…

The paper proves new Minkowski inequalities for flows in warped spaces.

Paper proves optimal systolic inequality for manifolds with positive triRic curvature.

Paper proves a sharp weighted Isoperimetric inequality for substatic manifolds.

We establish the inequality for Henneaux-Teitelboim's total energy-momentum for asymptotically anti-de Sitter initial data sets which are asymptotic to arbitrary $t$-slice in anti-de Sitter spacetime. In particular, when $t=0$, it generalizes Chruściel-Maerten-Tod's inequality in the center of AdS mass coordinates. We …

Study non-orientable link cobordisms using Floer homologies to prove inequalities.

A lower bound for the ADM mass is established in terms of angular momentum, charge, and horizon area in the context of maximal, axisymmetric initial data for the Einstein-Maxwell equations which satisfy the weak energy condition. If, on the horizon, the given data agree to a certain extent with the associated model Ker…

For an oriented link $L \subset S^3 = \Bd\!D^4$, let $χ_s(L)$ be the greatest Euler characteristic $χ(F)$ of an oriented 2-manifold $F$ (without closed components) smoothly embedded in $D^4$ with boundary $L$. A knot $K$ is {\it slice} if $χ_s(K)=1$. Realize $D^4$ in $\C^2$ as $\{(z,w):|z|^2+|w|^2\le1\}$. It has been c…

Consider a compact, orientable, three dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary with nonnegative scalar curvature. Suppose its boundary is the disjoint union of two pieces: the horizon boundary and the outer boundary, where the horizon boundary consists of the unique closed minimal surfaces in the manifold and the …

A new variational inference method using sliced Wasserstein distance is proposed.

Let S(D) be the surface produced by applying Seifert's algorithm to the oriented link diagram D. I prove that if D has no negative crossings then S(D) is a quasipositive Seifert surface, that is, S(D) embeds incompressibly on a fiber surface plumbed from positive Hopf annuli. This result, combined with the truth of the…

Let G be a two generator subgroup of PSL(2,C). The Jorgensen number J(G) of G is defined by J(G)=inf{ |tr^2 A-4|+|tr[A,B]-2| ; G=<A,B>}. If G is a non-elementary Kleinian group, then J(G) >= 1. This inequality is called Jorgensen's inequality. In this paper, we show that, for any r >= 1, there exists a non-elementary K…

We show that extreme Myers-Perry initial data realize the unique absolute minimum of the total mass in a physically relevant (Brill) class of maximal, asymptotically flat, bi-axisymmetric initial data for the Einstein equations with fixed angular momenta. As a consequence, we prove the relevant mass-angular momentum in…

Study geometric properties and spectral estimates on warped products.

In this paper, we study the behavior of $Υ_K(t)$ under the cabling operation, where $Υ_K(t)$ is the knot concordance invariant defined by Ozsváth, Stipsicz, and Szabó, associated to a knot $K\subset S^3$. The main result is an inequality relating $Υ_K(t)$ and $Υ_{K_{p,q}}(t)$, which generalizes the inequalities of Hedd…

Ozsvath and Szabo have defined a knot concordance invariant tau that bounds the 4-ball genus of a knot. Here we discuss shortcuts to its computation. We include examples of Alexander polynomial one knots for which the invariant is nontrivial, including all iterated untwisted positive doubles of knots with nonnegative T…

In this work we characterize certain immersed closed hypersurfaces of some ambient manifolds via the second eigenvalue of the Jacobi operator. First, we characterize the Clifford torus as the surface which maximizes the second eigenvalue of the Jacobi operator among all closed immersed orientable surfaces of $\mathbb S…

Study on $r-$shake slice knots and proves 0-shake slice knots are slice.

Proves certain knots are slice without shaking.