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20082026
most citedVirtual Domination of -manifolds

12 citations · 38 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

math.GT2026

Two aspects of graph 3-manifold groups

Hongbin Sun

We prove that fundamental groups of graph 3-manifolds are virtually poly-free and lie in the family Lex. As a consequence, we prove that all finitely generated 3-manifold groups al…

math.GT2023★ 1 cited

On the realisation problem for mapping degree sets

Christoforos Neofytidis, Hongbin Sun, Ye Tian +2

The set of degrees of maps , where are closed oriented -manifolds, always contains and the set of degrees of self-maps always contains and . Also…

math.GT2022

Virtual Domination of 3-manifolds III

Hongbin Sun

We prove that for any oriented cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold and any compact oriented 3-manifold with tori boundary, there exists a finite cover of that admits a de…

math.GT2021

Virtual domination of 3-manifolds II

Hongbin Sun

For any closed oriented 3-manifold with positive simplicial volume and any closed oriented 3-manifold , we prove that there exists a finite cover of that admits a d…

math.GT2021

On the degree of a finite cover which fibers over circle

Inkang Kim, Hongbin Sun

We give a lower bound for the degree of a finite cover of a hyperbolic 3-manifold which fibers over the circle, in terms of volume, the diameter of the manifold and other new invar…

math.GT2021★ 1 cited

Maps from 3-manifolds to 4-manifolds that induce isomorphisms on

Hongbin Sun, Zhongzi Wang

In this paper, we prove that any closed orientable 3-manifold other than and satisfies the following properties: (1) For any compact orientable 4-man…

math.GT2021★ 1 cited

Minimal Euler Characteristics of 4-manifolds with 3-manifold groups

Hongbin Sun, Zhongzi Wang

Let for a compact 3-manifold , and let , and be the invariants of Hausmann-Weinberger, Kotschick and Hillman respectively. For certain class of compact…

math.GT2021

All finitely generated 3-manifold groups are Grothendieck rigid

Hongbin Sun

In this paper, we prove that all finitely generated 3-manifold groups are Grothendieck rigid. More precisely, for any finitely generated 3-manifold group and any finitely gener…

math.GT2020

The panted cobordism group of cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Hongbin Sun

For any oriented cusped hyperbolic -manifold , we study its -panted cobordism group, which is the abelian group generated by -good curves in modulo the orie…

math.GR2019

Subgroup distortion of 3-manifold groups

Hoang Thanh Nguyen, Hongbin Sun

In this paper, we compute the subgroup distortion of all finitely generated subgroups of all finitely generated 3-manifold groups, and the subgroup distortion in this case can only…

math.GR2019★ 1 cited

An effective Lie--Kolchin theorem for quasi-unipotent matrices

Thomas Koberda, Feng Luo, Hongbin Sun

We establish an effective version of the classical Lie--Kolchin Theorem. Namely, let be quasi--unipotent matrices such that the Jordan Canonical F…

math.GT2018★ 5 cited

A characterization on separable subgroups of 3-manifold groups

Hongbin Sun

In this paper, we give a complete characterization on which finitely generated subgroups of finitely generated -manifold groups are separable. Our characterization generalizes L…

math.GT2017★ 1 cited

Geometrically finite amalgamations of hyperbolic 3-manifold groups are not LERF

Hongbin Sun

We prove that, for any two finite volume hyperbolic -manifolds, the amalgamation of their fundamental groups along any nontrivial geometrically finite subgroup is not LERF. This…

math.GT2017

Volume of representations and mapping degree

Pierre Derbez, Yi Liu, Hongbin Sun +1

Given a connected real Lie group and a contractible homogeneous proper --space furnished with a --invariant volume form, a real valued volume can be assigned to any repre…

math.GT2016

Virtual homological eigenvalue and mapping torus of pseudo-Anosov maps

Hongbin Sun

In this note, we show that, if a pseudo-Anosov map admits a finite cover whose action on the first homology has spectral radius greater than , then the monodromy of a…

math.GT2016★ 5 cited

NonLERFness of arithmetic hyperbolic manifold groups and mixed 3-manifold groups

Hongbin Sun

We will show that, for any noncompact arithmetic hyperbolic -manifold with , and any compact arithmetic hyperbolic -manifold with that is not a -dimensional a…

math.GT2016★ 3 cited

Positive simplicial volume implies virtually positive Seifert volume for -manifolds

Pierre Derbez, Yi Liu, Hongbin Sun +1

In this paper, it is shown that for any closed orientable -manifold with positive simplicial volume, the growth of the Seifert volume of its finite covers is faster than the lin…

math.GT2014★ 12 cited

Virtual Domination of -manifolds

Hongbin Sun

For any closed oriented hyperbolic -manifold , and any closed oriented -manifold , we will show that admits a finite cover , such that there exists a degree-…

math.GT2013★ 1 cited

Virtual Homological Torsion of Closed Hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Hongbin Sun

In this paper, we will use Kahn-Markovic's almost totally geodesic surfaces to construct certain -injective 2-complexes in closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Such 2-complexes are…

math.GT2012★ 3 cited

A Transcendental Invariant of Pseudo-Anosov Maps

Hongbin Sun

For each pseudo-Anosov map on surface , we will associate it with a -submodule of , denoted by . is defined by an interaction betwee…

math.GT2011

On slope genera of knotted tori in 4-space

Yi Liu, Yi Ni, Hongbin Sun +1

In this note, we investigate genera for the slopes of a knotted torus in the 4-sphere analogous to the genus of a classical knot. We compare various formulations of this notion, an…

math.GT2010

Finiteness of mapping degree sets for 3-manifolds

Pierre Derbez, Hongbin Sun, Shicheng Wang

By constructing certain maps, this note completes the answer of the Question: For which closed orientable 3-manifold , the set of mapping degrees is finite for any clo…

math.GT2010★ 3 cited

On fibered commensurability

Danny Calegari, Hongbin Sun, Shicheng Wang

This paper initiates a systematic study of the relation of commensurability of surface automorphisms, or equivalently, fibered commensurability of 3-manifolds fibering over the cir…

math.GT2009

Commensurability of Surface Automorphisms \\and surface bundles over

Hongbin Sun, Shicheng Wang

This note will become part of a new paper with more authors.