27. Guts of state surfaces and the colored Jones polynomial.

(with D. Futer and J. Purcell), in preparation. Slides of a talk on related material.

26. Slopes and colored Jones polynomials of adequate links.

(with D. Futer and J. Purcell).
PDF file .

25. An intrinsic approach to polynomial invariants for knots in 3-manifolds.

PDF file ArXiv

24. Cosmetic crossing changes of fibered knots.

PDF file (9/09).

23. Cusp areas of Farey manifolds and applications to knot theory.

(with D. Futer and J. Purcell).
PDF file , ArXiv

22. On diagrammatic bounds of knot volumes and spectral invariants.

(with D. Futer and J. Purcell), Geometriae Dedicata, to appear.
PDF file , ArXiv

21. Alternating sum formulae for the determinant and other link invariants.

(with O. Dasbach, D. Futer, X.-S. Lin and N. Stoltzfus),
``Knots and Quantum Computing" (December 18-20, 2007 UT Dallas, TX)
J. of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, June 2010, to appear.
(Volume Eds. M.Dabkowski, V.Harizanov, L.Kauffman, J.Przytycki and V.Ramakrishna)
PDF file. ArXiv

20. Symmetric Links and Conway sums: Volume and Jones polynomial.

(with D. Futer and J. Purcell) Mathematical Research Letters 16 (2009), non 2, 233-253.
PDF file , ArXiv

19. A note on quantum 3-manifold invariants and hyperbolic volume.
J. of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, Vol. 18 (1), 33-39( 2009).

PDF file. ArXiv

18. The Jones polynomial and graphs on surfaces.

(with O. Dasbach, D. Futer, X.-S. Lin and N. Stoltzfus),
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Ser. B , Vol. 98, Issue 2, 384-399(2008).
PDF file. ArXiv.

17. Dehn filling, volume and the Jones polynomial.

(with D. Futer and J. Purcell), Journal of Differential Geometry, Vol 78, no 3, 429-464 (2008).
PDF file.ArXiv

16. Knot adjacency and fibering.

(With Xiao-Song Lin),
Transactions of the American Math. Soc., Vol. 360, 3249-3261 (2008).
Postcript fileand PDF file.

15. Seifert surfaces, Commutators and Vassiliev knot invariants.

(With Xiao-Song Lin),
J. of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, Vol. 16 (10),1295-1329 ( 2007).
Special Volume in honor of L. Kauffman's 60th birthday ( Eds. J. Przytycki, S. Lampropoulou).
Postcript file and PDF file , ArXiv.

14. Knot adjacency, genus and essential tori.

(With Xiao-Song Lin),  Pacific Journal of Math., Vol. 228, No. 2, 251-276 (2006).
Postcript file and PDF file,

13. Alexander polynomial, finite type invariants and volume of hyperbolic knots.

Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Vol. 4 (48), 1111-1123(2004).
Postcript file

12. Surgery n-triviality and companion tori.

J. of Knot Theory and its Ramifications,; Vol. 13 (4),441-456 ( 2004).
Postcript file

11. Knot adjacency and satellites .

(With Xiao-Song Lin),  Topology and Its Applications,   Vol. 138 (3), 207-217 (2004).
Postcript file

10. On knot adjacency.

(With Nikos Askitas) ,Topology and Its Applications, Vol.126 (1-2), 63-81 (2002).
Postcript file

9. Power series link invariants and the Thurston norm.

Topology and Its Applications, Vol. 101 (2), 107-119 (2000).
Postcript file

8. Vassiliev invariants and orientation of pretzel knots.

J. of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, Vol 7 (2), 173-185(1998).

7. Milnor and finite type invariants of plat-closures.

(With Xiao-Song Lin) Mathematical Research Letters 5, 293-304(1998).
Postcript file

6. The HOMFLY polynomial for links in rational homology 3-spheres.

(With Xiao-Song Lin) Topology Vol 38 (1), 95-115 (1999).
Article

5. Finite type invariants for knots in 3-manifolds.

Topology Vol 37 (3), 673-707 (1998).
Article

4. Homology spheres with the same finite type invariants of bounded orders.

Mathematical Research Letters 4, 341-347 (1997).

3. Finite type invariants for knots in 3-manifolds.

Ph.D Thesis, Columbia University, NY, (1995).

2. Andendumm to: "On the $G\sb 2$ link invariant ".

J. of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, Vol 3 (3), 431--432 (1994).

1. On the G_2 link invariant.

J. of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, Vol 2 (4), 431-451(1993).