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In this short note, we show that the twisted Alexander polynomial associated to a parabolic SL(2,C)-representation detects genus and fibering of the twist knots. As a corollary, a conjecture of Dunfield, Friedl and Jackson is proved for the hyperbolic twist knots.
A pair $(alpha, beta)$ of simple closed geodesics on a closed and oriented hyperbolic surface $M_g$ of genus $g$ is called a filling pair if the complementary components of $alphacupbeta$ in $M_g$ are simply connected. The length of a filling pair is
We outline the proof that non-triangulable manifolds exist in any dimension greater than four. The arguments involve homology cobordism invariants coming from the Pin(2) symmetry of the Seiberg-Witten equations. We also explore a related construction
The classifying space for the framed Haefliger structures of codimension $q$ and class $C^r$ is $(2q-1)$-connected, for $1le rleinfty$. The corollaries deal with the existence of foliations, with the homology and the perfectness of the diffeomorphism
The m,n Turks Head Knot, THK(m,n), is an alternating (m,n) torus knot. We prove the Harary-Kauffman conjecture for all THK(m,n) except for the case where m geq 5 is odd and n geq 3 is relatively prime to m. We also give evidence in support of the con
The Hilbert-Smith Conjecture states that if G is a locally compact group which acts effectively on a connected manifold as a topological transformation group, then G is a Lie group. A rather straightforward proof of this conjecture is given. The moti