activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

math.GT2026

Heegaard Floer knot trace invariants, exotic 4-manifolds, and symplectic obstructions

Jennifer Hom, Shunyu Wan

We show that the numerical invariants and coming from knot Floer homology are knot -trace invariants for any integer , resolving the remaining case in Hay…

math.GT2026

The next-to-top term of the knot Floer homology of some non-fibered knots

Fraser Binns, Shunyu Wan

Sivek conjectured that the rank of knot Floer homology in the next-to-top Alexander grading is at least the rank in the top Alexander grading. Baldwin and Vela-Vick verified this c…

math.GT2026

Exotic 's, RBG Links, and End Floer Homology

Sean Eli, Shunyu Wan

We give the first pair of non-diffeomorphic exotic 's made by attaching diffeomorphic Casson handles onto diffeomorphic disk complements. Our examples are obtained us…

math.GT2026

Negative contact surgery on Legendrian non-simple knots

Shunyu Wan, Hugo Zhou

We prove that for any pair of Legendrian representatives of the Chekanov-Eliashberg twist knots with different LOSS invariants, any negative rational contact -surgery with $r\ne…

math.GT2025

Surgeries on knots and tight contact structures

Zhenkun Li, Shunyu Wan, Hugo Zhou

For any knot in and any positive rational , we show that smooth -surgery on always admits a tight contact structure. More specifically, the tightness is dete…

math.GT2024

On Legendrian representatives of non-fibered knots

Zhenkun Li, Shunyu Wan

We show that in if is a non-trivial knot that realizes the three-dimensional Thurston-Bennequin bound (i.e. has a Legendrian representative with $tb(Î…