Complex algebraic plane curves via their links at infinity.
Complex surface singularities with integral homology sphere links.
Computations of the Ozsvath-Szabo knot concordance invariant.
Concordance and 1-loop clovers.
Concordance and mutation.
Concordance implies homotopy for classical links in M3.
Concordance invariance of coefficients of Conway's link polynomial.
Conjugacy for positive permutation braids
Positive permutation braids on n strings, which are defined to be positive n-braids where each pair of strings crosses at most once, form the elementary but non-trivial building blocks in many studies of conjugacy in the braid groups. We consider conjugacy among these elementary braids which close to knots, and show that those which close to the trivial knot or to the trefoil are all conjugate. All such n-braids with the maximum possible crossing number are also shown to be conjugate. ...
Constructing Lens Spaces by Surgery on Knots.
Constructing taut foliations.
Contact homology and one parameter families of Legendrian knots.
Convergence groups and Seifert fibered 3-manifolds.
Correction to "Constructing Lens Spaces by Surgery on Knots".
Coverings of S3 branched over iterated torus links.
Coverings of S3 branched over iterated torus links appear naturally and very often in Algebraic Geometry. The natural graph-manifold structure of the exterior of an iterated torus link induces a graph-structure in the branched covers. In this paper we give an algorithm to compute valued graphs representing a branched cover given the monodromy representation associated to the covering. The algorithm is completely mechanized in order to be programmed, and can also be used for finding representation...
Crosscaps and knots.
Cusp structures of alternating links.
Cyclic branched coverings and homology 3-spheres with large group actions
We show that, if the covering involution of a 3-manifold M occurring as the 2-fold branched covering of a knot in the 3-sphere is contained in a finite nonabelian simple group G of diffeomorphisms of M, then M is a homology 3-sphere and G isomorphic to the alternating or dodecahedral group 𝔸₅ ≅ PSL(2,5). An example of such a 3-manifold is the spherical Poincaré sphere. We construct hyperbolic analogues of the Poincaré sphere. We also give examples of hyperbolic ℤ₂-homology 3-spheres with PSL(2,q)-actions,...
Cyclic branched coverings of 2-bridge knots.
In this paper we study the connections between cyclic presentations of groups and the fundamental group of cyclic branched coverings of 2-bridge knots. Then we show that the topology of these manifolds (and knots) arises, in a natural way, from the algebraic properties of such presentations.
Cyclic branched coverings of knots and homology spheres.
We study cyclic coverings of S3 branched over a knot, and study conditions under which the covering is a homology sphere. We show that the sequence of orders of the first homology groups for a given knot is either periodic of tends to infinity with the order of the covering, a result recently obtained independently by Riley. From our computations it follows that, if surgery on a knot k with less than 10 crossings produces a manifold with cyclic fundamental group, then k is a torus knot.