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For a quasi-projective scheme M which carries a perfect obstruction theory, we construct the virtual cobordism class of M. If M is projective, we prove that the corresponding Chern numbers of the virtual cobordism class are given by…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Junliang Shen

We show that, if a rational homology 3-sphere $Y$ bounds a positive definite smooth 4-manifold, then there are finitely many negative definite lattices, up to the stable-equivalence, which can be realized as the intersection form of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Dong Heon Choe , Kyungbae Park

It is, by now, classical that lattices in higher rank semisimple groups have various rigidity properties. In this work, we add another such rigidity property to the list: uniform stability with respect to the family of unitary operators on…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Lev Glebsky , Alexander Lubotzky , Nicolas Monod , Bharatram Rangarajan

We prove that there is an algorithm which determines whether or not a given 2-polyhedron can be embedded into some integral homology 3-sphere. This is a corollary of the following main result. Let $M$ be a compact connected orientable…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-06-03 Dmitry Tonkonog

A knot in $S^3$ is topologically slice if it bounds a locally flat disk in $B^4$. A knot in $S^3$ is rationally slice if it bounds a smooth disk in a rational homology ball. We prove that the smooth concordance group of topologically and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-14 Jennifer Hom , Sungkyung Kang , JungHwan Park

We compute the involutive Heegaard Floer homology of the family of three-manifolds obtained by plumbings along almost-rational graphs. (This includes all Seifert fibered homology spheres.) We also study the involutive Heegaard Floer…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Irving Dai , Ciprian Manolescu

A revised proof of the author's earlier result is given. It is shown that a boundary surface-link in the 4-sphere is a ribbon surface-link if the surface-link obtained from it by surgery along a pairwise nontrivial fusion 1-handle system is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Akio Kawauchi

For smooth embeddings of an integral homology 3-sphere in the 6-sphere, we define an integer invariant in terms of their Seifert surfaces. Our invariant gives a bijection between the set of smooth isotopy classes of such embeddings and the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Masamichi Takase

It is conjectured that every cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold has a decomposition into positive volume ideal hyperbolic tetrahedra (a "geometric" triangulation of the manifold). Under a mild homology assumption on the manifold we construct…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Craig D. Hodgson , J. Hyam Rubinstein , Henry Segerman

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…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-05 Bruce Bartlett , Christopher L. Douglas , Christopher J. Schommer-Pries , Jamie Vicary

We show how the periodicity of a homology sphere is reflected in the Reshetikhin-Turaev-Witten invariants of the manifold. These yield a criterion for the periodicity of a homology sphere.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Patrick M. Gilmer , Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska , Jozef H. Przytycki

We formulate a concrete geometric approximation hypothesis (Hypothesis~BB) asserting that codimension-$2$ Hodge classes on a smooth projective threefold can be realized as specializations of families whose general members are…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Karim Mansour

For each connected alternating tangle, we provide an infinite family of non-left-orderable L-spaces. This gives further support for Conjecture [3] of Boyer, Gordon, and Watson that is a rational homology 3-sphere is an L-space if and only…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Hamid Abchir , Mohammed Sabak

We introduce an oriented rational band move, a generalization of an ordinary oriented band move, and show that if a knot $K$ in the three-sphere can be made into the $(n+1)$-component unlink by $n$ oriented rational band moves, then $K$ is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Daren Chen , Jennifer Hom , Min Hoon Kim , JungHwan Park , Zhongtao Wu

The Borel Conjecture predicts that closed aspherical manifolds are topological rigid. We want to investigate when a non-aspherical oriented connected closed manifold M is topological rigid in the following sense. If f: N --> M is an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matthias Kreck , Wolfgang Lueck

In this article, we completely classify torus bundles over the circle that bound 4-manifolds with the rational homology of the circle. Along the way, we classify certain integral surgeries along chain links that bound rational homology…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Jonathan Simone

We give a bound for the order of the local monodromy of a compatible system of l-adic representations, which is independent of l. For the etale cohomology of a variety, the bound depends only on some numerical invariants of varieties.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-25 Naoya Umezaki

We obtain a rigidity phenomena of rational cohomology automorphisms of certain homogeneous spaces, in the presence of external cohomology classes arising from spaces with trivial cup product in rational cohomology algebra. We classify…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Manas Mandal , Divya Setia

Certain fibered hyperbolic 3-manifolds admit a $\mathit{\text{layered veering triangulation}}$, which can be constructed algorithmically given the stable lamination of the monodromy. These triangulations were introduced by Agol in 2011, and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-05 William Worden

We fix a null-homologous, homotopically essential knot $J$ in a 3-manifold with PTFA fundamental group and study concordance of knots that are homotopic to $J$. We construct an infinite family of knots that are characteristic to $J$, and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-05-26 Prudence Heck