Submitted preprints

22. Smoothing topological pseudo-isotopies of 4-manifolds
With M. Powell and O. Randal-Williams
21. Simply slicing knots
With A. Conway and M. Pencovitch

Published papers

20. Unknotting nonorientable surfaces
With A. Conway and M. Powell
J. Eur. Math. Soc. (2025)
19. Mapping class groups of simply connected 4-manifolds with boundary
With M. Powell
J. Differential Geom. 131 (2025), no. 1, 199--275.
18. Locally flat simple spheres in CP^2
With A. Conway
Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 57 (2025), no. 1, 150–163.
17. The foundations of four-manifold theory in the topological category
With S. Friedl, M. Nagel and M. Powell
NYJM Monogr. Volume 6, (2025)
16. Simple spines of homotopy 2-spheres are unique
With M. Powell
Proc. London Math. Soc. (2024), 128: e12583.
15. Null, recursively starlike-equivalent decompositions shrink
With J. Meier and A. Ray
Glasg. Math. J. 65 (2023), no. 2, 328--336.
14. Doubly slice knots and metabelian obstructions
With M. Powell
J. Topol. Anal. 14 (2022), no. 4, 847–873.
13. A calculus for flow categories
With A. Lobb and D. Schütz
Adv. Math. 409 (2022), part B, Paper No. 108665, 58 pp.
12. Abelian invariants of doubly slice links
With A. Conway
Enseign. Math. 68 (2022), no. 3, pp. 243–290
11. The relative Whitney trick and its applications
With C. W. Davis and J. Park
Selecta Math. (N.S.) 28 (2022), no. 2, Paper No. 27, 34 pp.
10. Embedding spheres in knot traces
With P. Feller, A. N. Miller, M. Nagel, M. Powell and A. Ray
Compos. Math. 157 (2021), no. 10, 2242--2279.
Me speaking about this paper at the NCNGT Conference 2020:
9. A lower bound for the doubly slice genus from signatures
With M. Powell
New York J. Math. 27 (2021), 379–392.
8. Triple linking numbers and surface systems
With C. W. Davis, M. Nagel and M. Powell
Indiana Univ. Math. J. 69 (2020), 2505-2547.
7. Khovanov homotopy calculations using flow category calculus
With A. Lobb and D. Schütz
Exp. Math. 29 (2020), no. 4, 475--500.
6. Smooth and topological almost concordance
With M. Nagel, J. Park and M. Powell
Int. Math. Res. Not. (2019), no. 23, 7324–7355.
5. Satellites and concordance of knots in 3-manifolds
With S. Friedl, M. Nagel and M. Powell
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 371 (2019), 2279-2306
4. Framed cobordism and flow category moves
With A. Lobb and D. Schütz
Algebr. Geom. Topol 18 (2018), no. 5, 2821-2858
3. A Khovanov stable homotopy type for colored links
With A. Lobb and D. Schütz
Algebr. Geom. Topol. 17 (2017), no. 2, 1261-1281
2. Double L-groups and doubly-slice knots
Algebr. Geom. Topol. 17 (2017), no. 1, 273-329
1. Twist spinning of knots and metabolizers of Blanchfield pairings
With S. Friedl
Ann. Fac. Sci. Toulouse Math. (6) 24 (2015), no. 5, 1203--1218.

Textbook chapters

Author on the following chapters of the Oxford University Press textbook
The disc embedding theorem, edited by S. Behrens, B. Kalmár, M. H. Kim, M. Powell, and A. Ray.

  • The Whitehead decomposition (with X. Cui, B. Kalmár, and N. Sunukjian)
  • Shrinking starlike sets (with J. Meier, and A. Ray)
  • Good groups (with M. H. Kim, J. Park, and A. Ray)
  • The s-cobordism theorem, the sphere embedding theorem and the Poincaré conjecture (with M. Powell, and A. Ray.)
  • Surgery theory and the classification of closed, simply connected 4-manifolds (with M. Powell, and A. Ray)
  • Open problems (with M. H. Kim, J. Park, and A. Ray)

Unpublished notes

Double Witt groups
(Will remain permanently a preprint as, after uploading this to the arXiv, I was informed that the main result can be obtained already as a consequence of work by Quebbeman-Scharlau-Schulte.)