几何拓扑
We make a first step towards connecting the theory of veering triangulations and bicontact structures as tools for studying (pseudo-)Anosov flows: We show that given a veering triangulation corresponding to an Anosov flow with orientable…
Donald and Owens introduced two link concordance groups with a marked component and showed that they contain the knot concordance group as a direct summand with infinitely generated complements. While not explicitly posed by Donald and…
The topological dynamics of the horocyclic flow $h_{\mathbb{R}}$ on the unit tangent bundle of a geometrically finite hyperbolic surface is well known. In particular, on such a surface, the flow $h_{\mathbb{R}}$ is minimal, or the minimal…
In this paper we study the theory of multi-knotoids in the annulus and in the torus, building up from the theory of planar knotoids to the theory of toroidal knotoids through the theory of annular knotoids. We introduce the concept of…
We determine the irreducible ${\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$-character variety of the 3-chain link exterior which is called the `magic $3$-manifold', and deduce a formula for the twisted Alexander polynomial associated to each ${\rm…
We prove that there exist infinitely many embedded tori with a common geometric dual in $T^4\#(S^2\times S^2)$ that are homotopic, diffeomorphic, but not isotopic to each other, even after arbitrary many external stabilizations. These…
Singular knot theory extends classical knot theory by allowing transverse double points without over/under information, together with singular Reidemeister moves of types IV and V. A central open problem in this theory is to determine the…
We realize every closed flat 3-manifold as a cusp section of a complete, finite-volume hyperbolic 4-manifold whose symmetry group acts transitively on the set of cusps. Moreover, for every such 3-manifold, a dense subset of its flat metrics…
Given a closed surface $S$ with finitely generated Veech group $G$ and its $\pi_1(S)$-extension $\Gamma$, there exists a hyperbolic space $\hat{E}$ on which $\Gamma$ acts isometrically and cocompactly. The space $\hat{E}$ is obtained by…
Goussarov-Habiro's theory of clasper surgeries defines a filtration of the monoid of string links $L(m)$ on $m$ strands, in a way that geometrically realizes the Feynman diagrams appearing in low-dimensional and quantum topology.…
We study formal series which are invariants of plumbed 3-manifolds twisted by root lattices. These series extend the BPS $q$-series $\widehat{Z}(q)$ recently defined in Gukov-Pei-Putrov-Vafa, Gukov-Manolescu, Park, and further refined in…
A simple closed curve in the boundary surface of a handlebody is called primitive if there exists an essential disk in the handlebody whose boundary circle intersects the curve transversely in a single point. The primitive curve complex is…
We study a generalized Witten's finiteness conjecture for the skein modules of oriented compact 3-manifolds with boundary. We formulate an equivalent version of the generalized finiteness conjecture using handlebodies and 2-handles, and…
We prove that for hyperbolic fibered knots in any closed, connected, oriented 3-manifold the volume and genus are unrelated. As an application we answer a question of Hirose, Kalfagianni, and Kin about volumes of mapping tori that are…
We prove that if $M$ is a rational homology sphere that is Dehn surgery on a fibered hyperbolic two-bridge link, then $M$ is not an $L$-space if and only if $M$ supports a coorientable taut foliation. As a corollary we show that if $K'$ is…
Since the 1980s, it has been known that essential surfaces in alternating link complements can be isotoped to be transverse to the link diagram almost everywhere, with the exception of some well-understood intersections, and described…
In this paper, we study Morse functions with regular level sets consisting of spheres, tori, or Klein Bottles on $3$-dimensional closed manifolds. We characterize $3$-dimensional manifolds represented by connected sums each of whose…
For a knot $K\subset S^3$, let $S(K)$ denote the set of knot types represented by simple closed curves on a minimal genus Seifert surface of $K$. We study the directed relation $K\to J$ defined by $J\in S(K)$, which we call the…
For pseudo-Anosov mapping tori with co-orientable invariant foliations and monodromies reversing their co-orientations, a family of taut foliations was constructed in previous work on Dehn fillings with all rational slopes outside a…
We give an explicit slice formula for a surface invariant of generic immersions in $\mathbb{R}^3$, expressed in terms of curve invariants arising from planar slices. Using a motion-picture viewpoint, we introduce differential measures that…