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It is known that the fundamental group homomorphism $\pi_1(T^2) \to \pi_1(S^3\setminus K)$ induced by the inclusion of the boundary torus into the complement of a knot $K$ in $S^3$ is a complete knot invariant. Many classical invariants of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Yuri Berest , Peter Samuelson

We give explicit deformations of embeddings of abstractly planar graphs that lie on the standard torus $T^2 \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ and that contain neither a nontrivial knot nor a nonsplit link into the plane. It follows that ravels do not…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Senja Barthel , Dorothy Buck

A theorem of Furuta and Fintushel-Stern provides a criterion for a collection of Seifert fibred homology spheres to be independent in the homology cobordism group of oriented homology 3-spheres. In this article we use these results and some…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Juanita Pinzón-Caicedo

Infinite families of 3-dimensional closed graph manifolds and closed Seifert fibered spaces are exhibited, each member of which contains an essential torus not detected by ideal points of the variety of $\text{SL}_2(\mathbb{F})$-characters…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Grace S. Garden , Benjamin Martin , Stephan Tillmann

Given a nonorientable, locally flatly embedded surface in the $4$-sphere of nonorientable genus $h$, Massey showed that the normal Euler number lies in $\lbrace -2h,-2h+4,\ldots,2h-4,2h \rbrace$. We prove that every such surface with knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Anthony Conway , Patrick Orson , Mark Powell

We study Legendrian knots in a cabled knot type. Specifically, given a topological knot type K, we analyze the Legendrian knots in knot types obtained from K by cabling, in terms of Legendrian knots in the knot type K. As a corollary of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-13 John B. Etnyre , Ko Honda

We classify spin structures on the noncommutative torus, and find that the noncommutative n-torus has 2^n spin structures, corresponding to isospectral deformations of spin structures on the commutative n-torus. For n>3 the classification…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Jan Jitse Venselaar

We call a knot in the 3-sphere $SU(2)$-simple if all representations of the fundamental group of its complement which map a meridian to a trace-free element in $SU(2)$ are binary dihedral. This is a generalisation of being a 2-bridge knot.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Raphael Zentner

This paper examines the relationship between the knotting of an embedded surface in $\R^3$ and the knotting of its fold curves, formed by the singular set of projection to a plane. The first result shows that every surface, no matter how…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Joel Hass

We classify topologically trivial Legendrian $\Theta$-graphs and identify the complete family of nondestabilizeable Legendrian realizations in this topological class. In contrast to all known results for Legendrian knots, this is an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-06-03 Peter Lambert-Cole , Danielle O'Donnol

Topology and geometry are deeply intertwined in the study of surfaces, though their interaction manifests differently in smooth and discrete settings. In the smooth category, a classical result asserts that any closed smooth surface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Soto Hisakawa , Shizuo Kaji , Ryo Kawai

In this paper we study welded knots and their invariants. We focus on generating examples of non-trivial knotted ribbon tori as the tube of welded knots that are obtained from classical knot diagrams by welding some of the crossings.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Tumpa Mahato , Rama Mishra , Sahil Joshi

In this paper, we give a complete topological and smooth classification of non-invertible Anosov maps on torus. We show that two non-invertible Anosov maps on torus are topologically conjugate if and only if their corresponding periodic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Ruihao Gu , Yi Shi

We investigate the total CR twist functional on transversal curves in the standard CR 3-sphere $\mathrm S^3 \subset \mathbb C^2$. The question of the integration by quadratures of the critical curves and the problem of existence and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Emilio Musso , Lorenzo Nicolodi

In this note, we first classify all topological torus knots lying on the Heegaard torus in lens spaces, and then we study Legendrian representatives of these knots. We classify oriented positive Legendrian torus knots in the universally…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-02 Sinem Onaran

We investigate properties of spatial graphs on the standard torus. It is known that nontrivial embeddings of planar graphs in the torus contain a nontrivial knot or a nonsplit link due to [1],[2]. Building on this and using the chirality of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-06 Senja Barthel

We discuss an "extrinsic" property of knots in a 3-subspace of the 3-sphere $S^3$ to characterize how the subspace is embedded in $S^3$. Specifically, we show that every knot in a subspace of the 3-sphere is transient if and only if the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Yuya Koda , Makoto Ozawa

We introduce the moduli space of spectral curves of constant mean curvature (\cmc\hspace{-5pt}) cylinders of finite type in the round unit 3-sphere. The subset of spectral curves of mean-convex Alexandrov embedded cylinders is explicitly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-11 L. Hauswirth , M. Kilian , M. U. Schmidt

This paper's theme is the relation between several classical and well-known objects: triangle Fuchsian groups, quasi-homogeneous singularities of plane curves, torus knot complements in the 3-sphere. Torus knots are the only nontrivial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-08-28 Valdemar V. Tsanov

For a genus-1 1-bridge knot in the 3-sphere, that is, a (1,1)-knot, a middle tunnel is a tunnel that is not an upper or lower tunnel for some (1,1)-position. Most torus knots have a middle tunnel, and non-torus-knot examples were obtained…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-08-18 Sangbum Cho , Darryl McCullough