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most citedThe trace embedding lemma and spinelessness

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math.GT2025

Dehn surgery functions are never injective

Kyle Hayden, Lisa Piccirillo, Laura Wakelin

We prove that, for each fixed rational number , there exists a pair of distinct knots whose -surgeries are orientation-preservingly homeomorphic. This conf…

math.GT2025

Distinguishing closed 4-manifolds by slicing

Tye Lidman, Lisa Piccirillo

One approach to produce a pair of homeomorphic-but-not-diffeomophic closed 4-manifolds is to find a knot which is smoothly slice in one but not the other. This approach has never b…

math.GT2025

Stably irreducible non-orientable knotted surfaces

Tye Lidman, Lisa Piccirillo

We give an elementary obstruction to reducibility for knotted surfaces in the four-sphere. As a new application, we construct stably irreducible non-orientable surfaces.

math.GT2020

New curiosities in the menagerie of corks

Kyle Hayden, Lisa Piccirillo

A cork is a smooth, contractible, oriented, compact 4-manifold together with a self-diffeomorphism of the boundary 3-manifold that cannot extend to a self-diffeomorphism of…

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The trace embedding lemma and spinelessness

Kyle Hayden, Lisa Piccirillo

We demonstrate new applications of the trace embedding lemma to the study of piecewise-linear surfaces and the detection of exotic phenomena in dimension four. We provide infinitel…

math.GT2019

Exotic Mazur manifolds and knot trace invariants

Kyle Hayden, Thomas E. Mark, Lisa Piccirillo

From a handlebody-theoretic perspective, the simplest compact, contractible 4-manifolds, other than the 4-ball, are Mazur manifolds. We produce the first pairs of Mazur manifolds t…