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20152026
most citedChern-Simons functional, singular instantons, and the four-dimensional clasp number

14 citations · 56 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

math.GT2026

On symplectic aspects of character varieties for punctured surfaces

Aliakbar Daemi, Christopher Scaduto

For a surface with an odd number of punctures, the moduli space of flat connections with traceless holonomy around each puncture is a symplectic manifold. When the moduli s…

math.GT2026

Instantons, indefinite 4-manifolds, and Dehn surgery

Aliakbar Daemi, Xingpei Liu, Mike Miller Eismeier

We prove that there exist hyperbolic integer homology spheres with arbitrarily large Dehn surgery number. Previously, no integer homology sphere was known to have a surgery number…

math.GT2025

Nullhomotopic knots are determined by their complements

Aliakbar Daemi, Ciprian Manolescu, Tye Lidman +1

We prove that nullhomotopic knots in three-manifolds are determined by their complements. This answers a Kirby Problem posed by Boileau. The argument uses techniques in instanton F…

math.GT2025

The mapping class group action on the odd character variety is faithful

Aliakbar Daemi, Christopher Scaduto

The odd character variety of a Riemann surface is a moduli space of SO(3) representations of the fundamental group which can be interpreted as the moduli space of stable holomorphi…

math.GT2024

Filtered instanton homology and cosmetic surgery

Aliakbar Daemi, Mike Miller Eismeier, Tye Lidman

The cosmetic surgery conjecture predicts that for a non-trivial knot in the three-sphere, performing two different Dehn surgeries results in distinct oriented three-manifolds. Hans…

math.GT2024

Unoriented skein exact triangles in equivariant singular instanton Floer theory

Aliakbar Daemi, Christopher Scaduto

Equivariant singular instanton Floer theory is a framework that associates to a knot in an integer homology 3-sphere a suite of homological invariants that are derived from circle-…