A criterion for homeomorphism between closed Haken manifolds.
We show that the action of the mapping class group on bordered Floer homology in the second to extremal spin-structure is faithful. This paper is designed partly as an introduction to the subject, and much of it should be readable without a background in Floer homology.
We prove that an Artin-Tits group of type is the group of fractions of a Garside monoid, analogous to the known dual monoids associated with Artin-Tits groups of spherical type and obtained by the “generated group” method. This answers, in this particular case, a general question on Artin-Tits groups, gives a new presentation of an Artin-Tits group of type , and has consequences for the word problem, the computation of some centralizers or the triviality of the center. A key point of the proof...
A category generalizing Jaeger-Nomura algebra associated to a spin model is given. It is used to prove some equivalence among the four conditions by Jaeger-Nomura for spin models of index 2.