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20122019
most citedFractional Dehn twists in knot theory and contact topology

22 citations · 63 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

math.GT2019

Taut foliations from double-diamond replacements

Charles Delman, Rachel Roberts

A 3-manifold is foliar if it supports a codimension-one co-oriented taut foliation. Suppose is an oriented 3-manifold with connected boundary a torus, and suppose contains…

math.GT2019★ 7 cited

Persistently foliar composite knots

Charles Delman, Rachel Roberts

A knot in is persistently foliar if, for each non-trivial boundary slope, there is a co-oriented taut foliation meeting the boundary of the knot complement transversely i…

math.GT2016★ 1 cited

Taut foliations

William H. Kazez, Rachel Roberts

We describe notions of tautness that arise in the study of foliations, or smoother foliations, and in geometry. We give examples to show that these notions are diff…

math.GT2016★ 3 cited

Foliation Theory

William H. Kazez, Rachel Roberts

Transverse one dimensional foliations play an important role in the study of codimension one foliations. In \cite{KR2}, the authors introduced the notion of flow box decomposition…

math.GT2015★ 19 cited

Approximations of foliations

William H. Kazez, Rachel Roberts

Suppose that is a transversely oriented, codimension one foliation of a connected, closed, oriented 3-manifold. Suppose also that has continuous tangent p…

math.GT2014

Approximating -foliations

William H. Kazez, Rachel Roberts

We extend the Eliashberg-Thurston theorem on approximations of taut oriented -foliations of 3-manifolds by both positive and negative contact structures to a large class of ta…

math.GT2012★ 5 cited

Taut foliations in surface bundles with multiple boundary components

Tejas Kalelkar, Rachel Roberts

Let be a fibered 3-manifold with multiple boundary components. We show that the fiber structure of transforms to closely related transversely oriented taut foliations reali…

math.GT2012★ 6 cited

Taut foliations in knot complements

Tao Li, Rachel Roberts

We show that for any nontrivial knot in , there is an open interval containing zero such that a Dehn surgery on any slope in this interval yields a 3-manifold with taut foliat…

math.GT2012★ 22 cited

Fractional Dehn twists in knot theory and contact topology

William H. Kazez, Rachel Roberts

Fractional Dehn twists give a measure of the difference between the relative isotopy class of a homeomorphism of a bordered surface and the Thurston representative of its free isot…