Dedekind sums, ..-invariants and the signature cocycle. Paul Melvin; Robion Kirby — 1994 Mathematische Annalen
Branched Covers of Surfaces in 4-Manifolds. Selman Akbulut; Robion Kirby — 1980 Mathematische Annalen
The 3-manifold invariants of Witten and Reshetikhin-Turaev for sl (2, C). Paul Melvin; Robion Kirby — 1991 Inventiones mathematicae
Constructing symplectic forms on 4--manifolds which vanish on circles. Gay, David T.; Kirby, Robion — 2004 Geometry & Topology