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20052023
most citedGrid Diagrams for Lens Spaces and Combinatorial Knot Floer Homology

75 citations · 189 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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40 papers

math.GT2023

Non-looseness of boundaries of Legendrian ribbons

Kenneth L. Baker, Sinem Onaran

Every null-homologous link in an oriented 3-manifold is isotopic to the boundary of a ribbon of a Legendrian graph for any overtwisted contact structure. However this is not the ca…

math.GT2023

Handle numbers of guts of sutured manifolds and nearly fibered knots

Kenneth L. Baker, Fabiola Manjarrez-Gutiérrez

Extending Haken's Theorem to product annuli and disks for Heegaard splittings of sutured manifolds, we show that the handle number of an irreducible sutured manifold equals the han…

math.GT2022

Morse-Novikov numbers, tunnel numbers, and handle numbers of sutured manifolds

Kenneth L. Baker, Fabiola Manjarrez-Gutiérrez

Developed from geometric arguments for bounding the Morse-Novikov number of a link in terms of its tunnel number, we obtain upper and lower bounds on the handle number of a Heegaar…

math.GT2022

Large volume fibred knots of fixed genus

Kenneth L. Baker, David Futer, Jessica S. Purcell +1

We show that, for hyperbolic fibred knots in the three-sphere, the volume and the genus are unrelated. Furthermore, for such knots, the volume is unrelated to strong quasipositivit…

math.GT2022

The Strong Slope Conjecture and crossing numbers for Mazur doubles of knots

Kenneth L. Baker, Kimihiko Motegi, Toshie Takata

The Slope Conjecture proposed by Garoufalidis asserts that the degree of the colored Jones polynomial determines a boundary slope, and its refinement, the Strong Slope Conjecture p…

math.GT2022★ 3 cited

Census L-space knots are braid positive, except for one that is not

Kenneth L. Baker, Marc Kegel

We exhibit braid positive presentations for all L-space knots in the SnapPy census except one, which is not braid positive. The normalized HOMFLY polynomial of o9_30634, when suita…