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The theory of complex hyperbolic discrete groups is still in its childhood but promises to grow into a rich subfield of geometry. In this paper I will discuss some recent progress that has been made on complex hyperbolic deformations of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard Evan Schwartz

We present a sketch of the proof of the following theorems: (1) Every 3-manifold has only finitely many homotopy classes of 2-plane fields which carry tight contact structures. (2) Every closed atoroidal 3-manifold carries finitely many…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vincent Colin , Emmanuel Giroux , Ko Honda

We complete the classification (started by Bray and the second author) of all closed 3-manifolds with Yamabe invariant greater than that of $\RP^3$, by showing that such manifolds are either $S^3$ or finite connected sums $# m(S^2 \times…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kazuo Akutagawa , André Neves

We prove that fundamental groups of non-orientable 3-manifolds have a solvable conjugacy problem, and construct an algorithm. Together with our earlier work on the conjugacy problem in groups on orientable geometrizable 3-manifolds, all…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-14 Jean-Philippe Préaux

We construct examples of non-formal simply connected and compact oriented manifolds of any dimension bigger or equal to 7.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Fernández , V. Muñoz

Let M be a compact oriented irreducible 3-manifold which is neither a graph manifold nor a hyperbolic manifold. We prove that the fundamental group of M is virtually special.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-25 Piotr Przytycki , Daniel T. Wise

We establish a parametric extension $h$-principle for overtwisted contact structures on manifolds of all dimensions, which is the direct generalization of the $3$-dimensional result from \cite{Eli89}. It implies, in particular, that any…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Matthew Strom Borman , Yakov Eliashberg , Emmy Murphy

In this short note we update a result proved in [16]. This will complete our program of [12] showing that the structure set vanishes for compact aspherical 3-manifolds.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-03-01 S. K. Roushon

This paper studies invariants of 3-manifolds derived from certain fin ite dimensional Hopf algebras. The invariants are based on right integrals for these algebras. It is shown that the resulting class of invariants is distinct from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Louis H. Kauffman , David E. Radford

In this article, we prove that the commensurability class of a closed, orientable, hyperbolic 3-manifold is determined by the surface subgroups of its fundamental group. Moreover, we prove that there can be only finitely many closed,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-16 D. B. McReynolds , A. W. Reid

In this note, we prove that any non-collapsing and compact Gromov-Hausdorff limit of Kahler-Einstein manifolds is either smooth or is orbifold outside a subvariety of complex codimension at least 3.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Chi Li , Gang Tian

We prove that cubical simplicial volume of oriented closed 3-manifolds is equal to one fifth of ordinary simplicial volume.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-13 Clara Loeh , Cristina Pagliantini , Sebastian Waeber

We classify involutions acting on spherical 3-manifolds up to conjugacy. Our geometric approach provides insights into numerous topological properties of these involutions.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Mattia Mecchia , Baptiste Schilling

We classify the $3$-manifolds obtained as the preimages of arcs on the plane for simplified $(2, 0)$-trisection maps, which we call vertical $3$-manifolds. Such a $3$-manifold is a connected sum of a $6$-tuple of vertical $3$-manifolds over…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-19 Nobutaka Asano

We prove exact complexity dichotomies for two quantum invariants of closed oriented three-manifolds, with the categorical data fixed. For a modular category $\mathcal{C}$, computing the Reshetikhin--Turaev invariant $Z_{\mathcal{C}}(M)$…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Cśar Galindo

We show that a complete contractible 3-manifold with positive scalar curvature and bounded geometry must be $\mathbb R^3$. We also show that an open handlebody of genus larger than 1 does not admit complete metrics with positive scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Otis Chodosh , Yi Lai , Kai Xu

Turaev's shadow can be seen locally as the Stein factorization of a stable map. In this paper, we define the notion of stable map complexity for a compact orientable 3-manifold bounded by (possibly empty) tori counting, with some weights,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Masaharu Ishikawa , Yuya Koda

We classify isotopy classes of automorphisms (self-homeomorphisms) of 3-manifolds satisfying the Thurston Geometrization Conjecture. The classification is similar to the classification of automorphisms of surfaces developed by Nielsen and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Leonardo N. Carvalho , Ulrich Oertel

We prove that any compact, orientable 3-manifold with empty or toral boundary is profinitely almost rigid among all compact, orientable 3-manifolds. In other words, the profinite completion of its fundamental group determines its…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Xiaoyu Xu

We classify irreducible homogeneous almost Hermite-Lorentz spaces of complex dimension 3.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-04 F. Kadi , M. Guediri , A. Zeghib