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We give several criteria on a closed, oriented 3-manifold that will imply that it is the boundary of a (simply connected) 4-manifold that admits infinitely many distinct smooth structures. We also show that any weakly fillable contact…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-19 John B. Etnyre , Hyunki Min , Anubhav Mukherjee

We classify topological $4$-manifolds with boundary and fundamental group $\mathbb{Z}$, under some assumptions on the boundary. We apply this to classify surfaces in simply-connected $4$-manifolds with $S^3$ boundary, where the fundamental…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Anthony Conway , Lisa Piccirillo , Mark Powell

Let M and M' be simple 3-manifolds, each with connected boundary of genus at least two. Suppose that M and M' are glued via a homeomorphism between their boundaries. Then we show that, provided the gluing homeomorphism is `sufficiently…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc Lackenby

We give some general criteria of being a homeomorphism for continuous mappings of topological manifolds, as well as criteria of being a diffeomorphism for smooth mappings of smooth manifolds. As an illustration, we apply these criteria to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Marina Prokhorova

We relate the topology of the Morse boundary of a group to geometric and algorithmic properties of the group. In particular, we show that a group has $\sigma$-compact Morse boundary if and only if it is Morse local-to-global. We also…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Carolyn Abbott , Stefanie Zbinden

We introduce a new type of boundary for proper geodesic spaces, called the Morse boundary, that is constructed with rays that identify the "hyperbolic directions" in that space. This boundary is a quasi-isometry invariant and thus produces…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Matthew Cordes

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…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Dong Heon Choe , Kyungbae Park

In this thesis, we present various contributions to the study of free boundary minimal surfaces. After introducing some basic tools and discussing some delicate aspects related to the definition of Morse index when allowing for a contact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Giada Franz

We give a simple combinatoric proof of an exponential upper bound on the number of distinct 3-manifolds that can be constructed by successively identifying nearest neighbour pairs of triangles in the boundary of a simplicial 3-ball and show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Bergfinnur Durhuus , Thordur Jonsson

We show that, up to topological conjugation, the equivalence class of a Morse-Smale diffeomorphism without heteroclinic curves on 3-manifold is completely defined by an em- bedding of two-dimensional stable and unstable heteroclinic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-29 Ch Bonatti , V Grines , F Laudenbach , O Pochinka

We define a sutured cobordism category of surfaces with boundary and 3-manifolds with corners. In this category a sutured 3-manifold is regarded as a morphism from the empty surface to itself. In the process we define a new class of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-18 Rumen Zarev

A generalized-homology bordism-theory is constructed, such that for certain manifold homotopy stratified sets (MHSS; Quinn-spaces) homeomorphism-invariant geometric fundamental-classes exist. The construction combines three ideas: Firstly,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Martin Rabel

We classify the orientable finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds having non-empty compact totally geodesic boundary and admitting an ideal triangulation with at most four tetrahedra. We also compute the volume of all such manifolds, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-09-06 Roberto Frigerio , Bruno Martelli , Carlo Petronio

We introduce and geometrically characterize the notion of uniformly perfect Morse boundary for proper geodesic metric spaces. As a unifying result, we prove that the Morse boundary of any finitely generated, non-elementary group is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Suzhen Han , Qing Liu

We classify contact toric 3-manifolds up to contactomorphism, through explicit descriptions, building off of work by Lerman [Lerman03]. As an application, we classify all contact structures on 3-manifolds that can be realised as a concave…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Aleksandra Marinković , Laura Starkston

In this paper, we classify completely hyperbolic 3-manifolds corresponding to geometric limits of Kleinian surface groups isomorphic to $\pi_1(S)$ for a finite-type hyperbolic surface $S$. In the first of the three main theorems, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-22 Ken'ichi Ohshika , Teruhiko Soma

We prove that there are homology three-spheres that bound definite four-manifolds, but any such bounding four-manifold must be built out of many handles. The argument uses the homology cobordism invariant $\Gamma$ from instanton Floer…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Paolo Aceto , Aliakbar Daemi , Jennifer Hom , Tye Lidman , JungHwan Park

A random group contains many subgroups which are isomorphic to the fundamental group of a compact hyperbolic 3-manifold with totally geodesic boundary. These subgroups can be taken to be quasi-isometrically embedded. This is true both in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Danny Calegari , Henry Wilton

Let X, Y, and Z be topological modules over a topological ring $R$. In the first part of the paper, we introduce three different classes of bounded bigroup homomorphisms from $X\times Y$ into $Z$ with respect to the three different uniform…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Omid Zabeti

The topological classification of gradient like Morse-Smale vector fields and diffeomorphisms on 3-manifolds was obtained.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. O. Prishlyak