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math.GT2025

A Practical Algorithm for Knot Factorisation

Alexander He, Eric Sedgwick, Jonathan Spreer

We present an algorithm for computing the prime factorisation of a knot, which is practical in the following sense: using Regina, we give an implementation that works well for inpu…

math.GT2024

Crushing Surfaces of Positive Genus

Benjamin A. Burton, Thiago de Paiva, Alexander He +1

The operation of crushing a normal surface has proven to be a powerful tool in computational -manifold topology, with applications both to triangulation complexity and to algori…

math.GT2023

An algorithm to construct one-vertex triangulations of Heegaard splittings

Alexander He, James Morgan, Em K. Thompson

Following work of Jaco and Rubinstein (2006), which (non-constructively) proved that any 3-manifold admits a one-vertex layered triangulation, we present an algorithm, with impleme…

math.GT2023★ 1 cited

Finding large counterexamples by selectively exploring the Pachner graph

Benjamin A. Burton, Alexander He

We often rely on censuses of triangulations to guide our intuition in -manifold topology. However, this can lead to misplaced faith in conjectures if the smallest counterexample…

math.GT2022★ 2 cited

Arc diagrams on 3-manifold spines

Jack Brand, Benjamin A. Burton, Zsuzsanna Dancso +3

We develop a theory of link projections to trivalent spines of 3-manifolds. We prove a Reidemeister Theorem providing a set of combinatorial moves sufficient to relate the projecti…

math.GT2020

Connecting 3-manifold triangulations with unimodal sequences of elementary moves

Benjamin A. Burton, Alexander He

A key result in computational 3-manifold topology is that any two triangulations of the same 3-manifold are connected by a finite sequence of bistellar flips, also known as Pachner…