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most citedQuasipositive links and Stein surfaces

12 citations · 40 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

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

Lecture notes on link homologies and knotted surfaces

Kyle Hayden

Link homology theories (such as knot Floer homology and Khovanov homology) have become indispensable tools for studying knots and links, including powerful 4-dimensional obstructio…

math.GT2025

A knot-theoretic tour of dimension four

Márton Beke, Kyle Hayden

These notes follow a lecture series at the "Singularities and low dimensional topology" winter school at the Rényi Institute in January 2023, with a target audience of graduate stu…

math.GT2024

Exotic aspherical 4-manifolds

Michael Davis, Kyle Hayden, Jingyin Huang +2

We construct closed, aspherical, smooth 4-manifolds that are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic. These provide counterexamples to a smooth analog of the Borel conjecture in dimensi…

math.GT2023

Doubled Disks and Satellite Surfaces

Gary Guth, Kyle Hayden, Sungkyung Kang +1

Conjecturally, a knot is slice if and only if its positive Whitehead double is slice. We consider an analogue of this conjecture for slice disks in the four-ball: two slice disks o…

math.GT2023

One stabilization is not enough for closed knotted surfaces

Kyle Hayden, Sungkyung Kang, Anubhav Mukherjee

In this brief note, we show that there exist smooth 4-manifolds (with nonempty boundary) containing pairs of exotically knotted 2-spheres that remain exotic after one (either exter…