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Publications & Preprints

(with N. Brown, R. Finck, M. Spencer, K. Tapp) Invariant metrics with nonnegative curvature on compact Lie groups, Canad. Math. Bull. 50 (2007), no. 1, 24-34

Perturbed Floer homology of some fibered three manifolds, Algebr. Geom. Topol. 9 (2009), 337-350

Cosmetic surgery in L-space homology spheres, Geom. Topol. 15 (2011), 1157-1168

U-action on perturbed Heegaard Floer homology, J. Symp. Geom.10 (2012), 423-446

On mapping cones of Seifert fibered surgeries, J. Topol. 5 (2012), 366-376

(with Y. Ni) Heegaard Floer correction terms and rational genus bounds, Adv. Math. 267 (2014), 360-380

On minimal genus problem, Proceedings of the Gokova Geometry-Topology Conference (2015), 250-263

(with Y. Ni) Correction terms, Z_2-Thurston norm, and triangulations, Topology Appl. 194 (2015), 409-426

(with Y. Ni) Cosmetic surgeries on knots in S^3, J. Reine Angew. Math 706 (2015), 1-17

(with J. Hom) Four-ball genus bounds and a refinement of the Ozsvath-Szabo tau-invariant, J. Symp. Geom. 14 (2016), 305-323

A cabling formula for nu^+ invariant, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc 144 (2016) no. 9, 4089-4098

(with M. Kim) On rational sliceness of Miyazaki’s fibered, - amphicheiral knots, Bull. London Math. Soc 50 (2018) no. 3, 462-476.

(with Y. Li) A bound for rational Thurston-Bennequin invariants, Geom. Dedi-cata 200 (2019), 371-383

(with K. Ichihara) A note on Jones polynomial and cosmetic surgery, Comm. Anal. Geom. 27 (2019) no. 5, 1087-1104

(with Y. Bao) An Alexander polynomial for MOY graphs, Selecta Math. (N.S.) 26 (2020), Article number: 32, 44 pp.

(with F. Ding, Y. Li) Contact (+1)-surgeries along Legendrian two-component links, Quantum Topol. 11 (2020), 295-321

(with O. Vandans, K. Yang, L. Dai) Identifying knot types of polymer conformations by machine learning, Phys. Rev. E 101, 022502 (2020)

[article], Featured in Physics, Editors’ Suggestion, Nature Research Highlight

Theory of spatial graphs and Alexander polynomials, Proceedings of the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians 2017, First Annual Meeting, (2020), 575-589

(with Y. Bao) Alexander polynomials and spanning trees, Internat. J. Math. 32 (2021), no. 8 , 2150073, 15 pp.

(with J. Yang) Studies of distance one surgeries on lens space L(p,1), Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 172 (2022), 267-301

(with F. Ding, Y. Li) Contact (+1)-surgeries on rational homology 3-spheres, J. Symp. Geom. 20 (2022), 1037-1066

(with F. Ding, Y. Li) Nonexistence and existence of fillable contact structures on 3-manifolds, available at arXiv: 2111.02151