collaborators

6 papers

math.GT2026

The Conway knot has infinite concordance order

Chiara Donatone, Marc Kegel, Lukas Lewark +1

We examine how the Rasmussen invariant, satellite operations, and null-homologous twists can be used to establish infinite order of knots in the smooth concordance group. As an app…

math.GT2026

On T-positive links

Benjamin Bode, Paula Truöl

T-positive links form a subset of strongly quasipositive links that strictly contains the set of all non-split braid positive links. Analogous to Baader's characterisation of posit…

math.GT2026

Braid positive surgery diagrams

Marc Kegel, Paula Truöl

In this short note, we prove that every closed, oriented, connected 3-manifold arises as Dehn surgery along a braid positive link.

math.GT2025

Non-complex cobordisms between quasipositive knots

Maciej Borodzik, Paula Truöl

We show that for every genus , there exist quasipositive knots and such that there is a cobordism of genus between and…

math.GT2025

On the detection of knotted spheres by their traces in high dimensions

Valentina Bais, Alessio Di Prisa, Daniel Hartman +8

For every , we demonstrate the existence of non-isotopic smooth -knots in with diffeomorphic traces by generalising the RBG link construction to all dimensio…

math.GT2025

Algorithms in 4-manifold topology

Stefan Bastl, Rhuaidi Burke, Rima Chatterjee +28

We show that there exists an algorithm that takes as input two closed, simply connected, topological 4-manifolds and decides whether or not these 4-manifolds are homeomorphic. In p…