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We study systems of $2$-tangle equations which play an important role in the analysis of enzyme actions on DNA strands. We show that every system of framed tangle equations has at most one framed rational solution. Furthermore, we show that…

Suppose that $M$ is a compact, connected three-manifold with boundary. We show that if the universal cover has infinitely many boundary components then $M$ has an ideal triangulation which is essential: no edge can be homotoped into the…

We give an estimate for Manolescu's $\kappa$-invariant of a rational homology 3-sphere $Y$ by the data of a spin 4-orbifold bounded by $Y$. By an appropriate choice of a 4-orbifold, sometimes we can restrict and determine the value of…

Given a topological cell decomposition of a closed surface equipped with edge weights, we consider the Dirichlet energy of any geodesic realization of the 1-skeleton graph to a hyperbolic surface. By minimizing the energy over all possible…

We consider a generalized Gambaudo--Ghys construction on bounded cohomology and prove its injectivity. As a corollary, we prove that the third bounded cohomology of the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms on the 2-disk is…

We study growth of absolute and homological $k$-dimensional systoles of arithmetic $n$-manifolds along congruence coverings. Our main interest is in the growth of systoles of manifolds whose real rank $r > 1$. We observe, in particular,…

The Graph Minor Theorem of Robertson and Seymour implies a finite set of obstructions for any minor closed graph property. We show that there are only three obstructions to knotless embedding of size 23, which is far fewer than the 92 of…

This is the first paper to systematically study the earthquake metric, an asymmetric Finsler metric on Teichm{\"u}ller space introduced by Thurston. We provide proofs for several assertions of Thurston and establish new properties of this…

Let $X\subset\mathbb{C}^m$ be an unbounded pure $k$-dimensional algebraic set. We define the tangent cones $C_{4, \infty}(X)$ and $C_{5,\infty}(X)$ of $X$ at infinity. We establish some of their properties and relations. We prove that $X$…

We study two quantifications of being a homology sphere for hyperbolic 3-manifolds, one geometric and one topological: the spectral gap for the Laplacian on coclosed 1-forms and the size of the first torsion homology group. We first…

In an earlier paper, we described bordered algebras for knot Floer homology. In this paper, we introduce a differential graded algebra, the pong algebra and compute the A-infinity structure on its homology.

Let $N$ be a connected nonorientable surface with or without boundary and punctures, and $j\colon S\rightarrow N$ be the orientation double covering. It has previously been proved that the orientation double covering $j$ induces an…

We show that certain two kinds of trisection diagrams of the doubles of the Mazur type 4-manifolds introduced by Akbulut and Kirby are standard. One is constructed by doubling a certain relative trisection diagram of the Mazur type. The…

It is well-known that a knot is Fox $n$-colorable for a prime $n$ if and only if the knot group admits a surjective homomorphism to the dihedral group of degree $n$. However, this is not the case for links with two or more components. In…

We prove that a $C^{\infty}$ semialgebraic local diffeomorphism of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with non-properness set having codimension greater than or equal to $2$ is a global diffeomorphism if $n-1$ suitable linear partial differential operators are…

We consider circle patterns on surfaces with complex projective structures. We investigate two symplectic forms pulled back to the deformation space of circle patterns. The first one is Goldman's symplectic form on the space of complex…

In this paper we discuss a general strategy to detect the absence of weakly symplectic fillings of $L$-spaces. We start from a generic $L$-space knot and consider (positive) Dehn surgeries on it. We compute, using arithmetic data depending…

We defined a new set of coordinates with respect to which the Thurston compactification of Teichmuller space is the radial compactification of Euclidean space.

In this paper we define the fundamental quandle of knotoids and linkoids and prove that it is invariant under the under forbidden-move and hence encodes only the information of the underclosure of the knotoid. We then introduce $n$-pointed…

In 1974, Kaplinskaja classified all simplicial straight hyperbolic Coxeter prisms. In this paper, we determine precisely which of these prisms are properly quasi-arithmetic or arithmetic. We also present some observations regarding…