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Publications and preprints

20. Surgery moves connecting all essential spanning surfaces for a 2-bridge link I: continued fractions 

(with M. Cohen, A. Lowrance, P. Shanahan, and C. Van Cott), in preparation. 

19. Three formulas for the Ising and Potts invariants of a knot or link (with T. Bullock), submitted, 12 pp. arXiv. 

18. Spanning solids and Murasugi sum in dimension four (with H. Karimi, S. Kim, M. Miller, and P. Naylor), submitted, 61 pp. arXiv 

17. Crosscap numbers of alternating links via state codes (with I. Bahena and J. Parsley), submitted, 22 pp. arXiv. 

16. How natural of a geometric operation is Murasugi sum?, submitted, 32 pp. arXiv

15. How essential is a spanning surface?, submitted, 22 pp. arXiv 

14. The virtual flyping theorem,      

to appear in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A, 40 pp. arXiv

13. KInk-equivalence of matrices, spanning surfaces, 4-manifolds, and quadratic forms (with H. Howards, W. F. Moore, and J. Tolbert), to appear in Fund. Math., 22 pp. arXiv 

12. Average crosscap number of a 2-bridge knot (with M. Cohen, A. Lowrance, P. Shanahan, and C. Van Cott), to appear in Alg. Geom. Topol., 34 pp. arXiv

11. Primeness of alternating virtual links,      

to appear in J. Knot Theory Ramifications, 36 pp. link

 

10. A geometric proof of the flyping theorem, Adv. Math. 482 (2025) C 110642. link

9. End-essential spanning surfaces for links in thickened surfaces, Topol. Appl. 361 (2025), 109187. link

 

8. A simple proof of the Crowell-Murasugi theorem, Alg. Geom. Topol. 24 (2024), no. 5, 2779-86. link

 

7. Efficient multisections of odd-dimensional tori, Alg. Geom. Topol. 23 (2023), no. 9, 3997-4056. link

 

6. Nonorientable spanning surfaces for knots, Chapter 23 of the Concise Encyclopedia of Knot Theory (2021), 197-203.

 

5. Crosscap numbers of alternating knots via unknotting splices, Internat. J. Math. 31 (2020), no. 7, 2050057, 30 pp. link


The knot data on my webpage comes out of this paper.

 

4. Alternating links have representativity 2. Alg. Geom. Topol. 18 (2018), no. 6, 3339-3362. link

 

3. Plumbing essential states in Khovanov homology, New York J. Math. 24 (2018), 588-610. link

 

2. Heegaard diagrams corresponding to Turaev surfaces (with C. Armond and N. Druivenga), J. Knot Theory Ramifications 24 (2015), no. 4, 1550026, 14 pp. link

 

1. A classification of spanning surfaces for alternating links (with C. Adams), Alg. Geom. Topol. 13 (2013), no. 5, 2967-3007. link

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