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

In preparation.

25. Guts of state surfaces and the Jones polynomial.

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

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

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

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

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

22. Cosmetic crossing changes of fibered knots.

PDF file Rewriten version posted 1/09.Longer outdated version at ArXiv.

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

(with O. Dasbach, D. Futer, X.-S. Lin and N. Stoltzfus)
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).