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Kirby, Robion Cromwell

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Documents Indexed: 57 Publications since 1966, including 5 Books
1 Contribution as Editor
Biographic References: 1 Publication
Co-Authors: 18 Co-Authors with 37 Joint Publications
372 Co-Co-Authors

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51 Publications have been cited 1,399 times in 1,149 Documents Cited by Year
Foundational essays on topological manifolds, smoothings and triangulations. Zbl 0361.57004
Kirby, Robion C.; Siebenmann, Laurence C.
257
1977
A calculus for framed links in \(S^3\). Zbl 0377.55001
Kirby, Robion
155
1978
The 3-manifold invariants of Witten and Reshetikhin-Turaev for sl\((2,\mathbb{C})\). Zbl 0745.57006
Kirby, Robion; Melvin, Paul
143
1991
The topology of 4-manifolds. Zbl 0668.57001
Kirby, Robion C.
105
1989
Deformations of spaces of imbeddings. Zbl 0214.50303
Edwards, R. D.; Kirby, R. C.
101
1971
On the triangulation of manifolds and the Hauptvermutung. Zbl 0189.54701
Kirby, R. C.; Siebenmann, L. C.
95
1969
Stable homeomorphisms and the annulus conjecture. Zbl 0176.22004
Kirby, R. C.
52
1969
Problems in low dimensional manifold theory. Zbl 0394.57002
Kirby, Rob
50
1978
Branched covers of surfaces in 4-manifolds. Zbl 0421.57002
Akbulut, Selman; Kirby, Robion
45
1980
Dedekind sums, \(\mu\)-invariants and the signature cocycle. Zbl 0809.11027
Kirby, Robion; Melvin, Paul
42
1994
Trisecting 4-manifolds. Zbl 1372.57033
Gay, David T.; Kirby, Robion
41
2016
\(Pin\) structures on low-dimensional manifolds. Zbl 0754.57020
Kirby, R. C.; Taylor, L. R.
37
1990
Mazur manifolds. Zbl 0443.57011
Akbulut, Selman; Kirby, Robion
25
1979
Prime knots and concordance. Zbl 0426.57001
Kirby, Robion C.; Lickorish, W. B. Raymond
23
1979
Handlebody decompositions of complex surfaces. Zbl 0631.57009
Harer, John; Kas, Arnold; Kirby, Robion
20
1986
A potential smooth counterexample in dimension 4 to the Poincaré conjecture, the Schoenflies conjecture, and the Andrews-Curtis conjecture. Zbl 0584.57009
Akbulut, Selman; Kirby, Robion
18
1985
A survey of 4-manifolds through the eyes of surgery. Zbl 0974.57012
Kirby, Robion C.; Taylor, Laurence R.
15
2001
Constructing symplectic forms on 4–manifolds which vanish on circles. Zbl 1054.57027
Gay, David T.; Kirby, Robion
15
2004
Constructing Lefschetz-type fibrations on four-manifolds. Zbl 1135.57009
Gay, David T.; Kirby, Robion
11
2007
Canonical framings for 3-manifolds. Zbl 0947.57020
Kirby, Rob; Melvin, Paul
11
1999
On the set of non-locally flat points of a submanifold of codimensional one. Zbl 0185.51603
Kirby, R. C.
11
1968
Slice knots and property R. Zbl 0377.55002
Kirby, Robion; Melvin, Paul
10
1978
Problems in low-dimensional topology. (Edited by Rob Kirby). Zbl 0888.57014
10
1997
An exotic involution of \(S^ 4\). Zbl 0465.57013
Akbulut, Selman; Kirby, Robion
10
1979
A geometric proof of Rochlin’s theorem. Zbl 0392.57018
Freedman, Michael; Kirby, Robion
9
1978
Normal bundles for codimension 2 locally flat imbeddings. Zbl 0331.57004
Kirby, R. C.; Siebenmann, L. C.
9
1975
Indefinite Morse 2-functions: broken fibrations and generalizations. Zbl 1328.57019
Gay, David T.; Kirby, Robion
8
2015
Cohomotopy sets of 4-manifolds. Zbl 1273.57012
Kirby, Robion; Melvin, Paul; Teichner, Peter
7
2012
Some theorems on topological manifolds. Zbl 0216.45203
Kirby, R. C.; Siebenmann, L. C.
7
1971
Local surgery formulas for quantum invariants and the Arf invariant. Zbl 1087.57006
Kirby, Robion; Melvin, Paul
7
2004
Fiber-connected, indefinite Morse 2-functions on connected \(n\)-manifolds. Zbl 1256.57024
Gay, David T.; Kirby, Robion C.
6
2011
Evaluations of the 3-manifolds invariants of Witten and Reshetikhin- Turaev for \(sl(2,C)\). Zbl 0756.57006
Kirby, Robion; Melvin, Paul
5
1990
Quantum invariants at the sixth root of unity. Zbl 0779.57007
Kirby, Robion; Melvin, Paul; Zhang, Xingru
4
1993
Akbulut’s corks and \(h\)-cobordisms of smooth, simply connected 4-manifolds. Zbl 0868.57031
Kirby, Rob
4
1996
A calculation of \(Pin^ +\) bordism groups. Zbl 0719.55004
Kirby, R. C.; Taylor, L. R.
4
1990
Eight faces of the Poincaré homology 3-sphere. Zbl 0511.57008
Kirby, R. C.; Scharlemann, M. G.
4
1982
On the annulus conjecture. Zbl 0151.32902
Kirby, R. C.
4
1966
The union of flat \((n-1)\)-balls is flat in \(R^ n\). Zbl 0157.54603
Kirby, Robion C.
4
1968
Celebratio Mathematica. Zbl 1352.68277
Kirby, Rob
3
2016
A new invariant of 4-manifolds. Zbl 1421.57031
Kirby, Robion; Thompson, Abigail
3
2018
Group trisections and smooth 4-manifolds. Zbl 1404.57001
Abrams, Aaron; Gay, David; Kirby, Robion
3
2018
Eight faces of the Poincaré homology 3-sphere. Zbl 0469.57006
Kirby, R. C.; Scharlemann, M. G.
3
1979
Smoothing locally flat imbeddings of differentiable manifolds. Zbl 0152.22401
Kirby, R. C.
3
1967
Four-manifold theory. (Proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on Four-manifold Theory held at Durham, New Hampshire, July 4-10, 1982). Zbl 0549.00018
Kirby, Robion
2
1984
4-manifold problems. Zbl 0558.57004
Kirby, Rob
2
1984
Reconstructing 4-manifolds from Morse 2-functions. Zbl 1267.57020
Gay, David; Kirby, Robion
1
2012
What is …Boy’s surface? Zbl 1151.53306
Kirby, Rob
1
2007
Trisections of 4-manifolds. Zbl 1421.57030
Kirby, Robion
1
2018
Some conjectures about four-manifolds. Zbl 0223.57004
Kirby, R. C.
1
1971
A curious category which equals TOP. Zbl 0315.57003
Kirby, R. C.; Scharlemann, M. G.
1
1975
Smoothing locally flat imbeddings. Zbl 0138.18803
Kirby, R. C.
1
1966
A new invariant of 4-manifolds. Zbl 1421.57031
Kirby, Robion; Thompson, Abigail
3
2018
Group trisections and smooth 4-manifolds. Zbl 1404.57001
Abrams, Aaron; Gay, David; Kirby, Robion
3
2018
Trisections of 4-manifolds. Zbl 1421.57030
Kirby, Robion
1
2018
Trisecting 4-manifolds. Zbl 1372.57033
Gay, David T.; Kirby, Robion
41
2016
Celebratio Mathematica. Zbl 1352.68277
Kirby, Rob
3
2016
Indefinite Morse 2-functions: broken fibrations and generalizations. Zbl 1328.57019
Gay, David T.; Kirby, Robion
8
2015
Cohomotopy sets of 4-manifolds. Zbl 1273.57012
Kirby, Robion; Melvin, Paul; Teichner, Peter
7
2012
Reconstructing 4-manifolds from Morse 2-functions. Zbl 1267.57020
Gay, David; Kirby, Robion
1
2012
Fiber-connected, indefinite Morse 2-functions on connected \(n\)-manifolds. Zbl 1256.57024
Gay, David T.; Kirby, Robion C.
6
2011
Constructing Lefschetz-type fibrations on four-manifolds. Zbl 1135.57009
Gay, David T.; Kirby, Robion
11
2007
What is …Boy’s surface? Zbl 1151.53306
Kirby, Rob
1
2007
Constructing symplectic forms on 4–manifolds which vanish on circles. Zbl 1054.57027
Gay, David T.; Kirby, Robion
15
2004
Local surgery formulas for quantum invariants and the Arf invariant. Zbl 1087.57006
Kirby, Robion; Melvin, Paul
7
2004
A survey of 4-manifolds through the eyes of surgery. Zbl 0974.57012
Kirby, Robion C.; Taylor, Laurence R.
15
2001
Canonical framings for 3-manifolds. Zbl 0947.57020
Kirby, Rob; Melvin, Paul
11
1999
Problems in low-dimensional topology. (Edited by Rob Kirby). Zbl 0888.57014
10
1997
Akbulut’s corks and \(h\)-cobordisms of smooth, simply connected 4-manifolds. Zbl 0868.57031
Kirby, Rob
4
1996
Dedekind sums, \(\mu\)-invariants and the signature cocycle. Zbl 0809.11027
Kirby, Robion; Melvin, Paul
42
1994
Quantum invariants at the sixth root of unity. Zbl 0779.57007
Kirby, Robion; Melvin, Paul; Zhang, Xingru
4
1993
The 3-manifold invariants of Witten and Reshetikhin-Turaev for sl\((2,\mathbb{C})\). Zbl 0745.57006
Kirby, Robion; Melvin, Paul
143
1991
\(Pin\) structures on low-dimensional manifolds. Zbl 0754.57020
Kirby, R. C.; Taylor, L. R.
37
1990
Evaluations of the 3-manifolds invariants of Witten and Reshetikhin- Turaev for \(sl(2,C)\). Zbl 0756.57006
Kirby, Robion; Melvin, Paul
5
1990
A calculation of \(Pin^ +\) bordism groups. Zbl 0719.55004
Kirby, R. C.; Taylor, L. R.
4
1990
The topology of 4-manifolds. Zbl 0668.57001
Kirby, Robion C.
105
1989
Handlebody decompositions of complex surfaces. Zbl 0631.57009
Harer, John; Kas, Arnold; Kirby, Robion
20
1986
A potential smooth counterexample in dimension 4 to the Poincaré conjecture, the Schoenflies conjecture, and the Andrews-Curtis conjecture. Zbl 0584.57009
Akbulut, Selman; Kirby, Robion
18
1985
Four-manifold theory. (Proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on Four-manifold Theory held at Durham, New Hampshire, July 4-10, 1982). Zbl 0549.00018
Kirby, Robion
2
1984
4-manifold problems. Zbl 0558.57004
Kirby, Rob
2
1984
Eight faces of the Poincaré homology 3-sphere. Zbl 0511.57008
Kirby, R. C.; Scharlemann, M. G.
4
1982
Branched covers of surfaces in 4-manifolds. Zbl 0421.57002
Akbulut, Selman; Kirby, Robion
45
1980
Mazur manifolds. Zbl 0443.57011
Akbulut, Selman; Kirby, Robion
25
1979
Prime knots and concordance. Zbl 0426.57001
Kirby, Robion C.; Lickorish, W. B. Raymond
23
1979
An exotic involution of \(S^ 4\). Zbl 0465.57013
Akbulut, Selman; Kirby, Robion
10
1979
Eight faces of the Poincaré homology 3-sphere. Zbl 0469.57006
Kirby, R. C.; Scharlemann, M. G.
3
1979
A calculus for framed links in \(S^3\). Zbl 0377.55001
Kirby, Robion
155
1978
Problems in low dimensional manifold theory. Zbl 0394.57002
Kirby, Rob
50
1978
Slice knots and property R. Zbl 0377.55002
Kirby, Robion; Melvin, Paul
10
1978
A geometric proof of Rochlin’s theorem. Zbl 0392.57018
Freedman, Michael; Kirby, Robion
9
1978
Foundational essays on topological manifolds, smoothings and triangulations. Zbl 0361.57004
Kirby, Robion C.; Siebenmann, Laurence C.
257
1977
Normal bundles for codimension 2 locally flat imbeddings. Zbl 0331.57004
Kirby, R. C.; Siebenmann, L. C.
9
1975
A curious category which equals TOP. Zbl 0315.57003
Kirby, R. C.; Scharlemann, M. G.
1
1975
Deformations of spaces of imbeddings. Zbl 0214.50303
Edwards, R. D.; Kirby, R. C.
101
1971
Some theorems on topological manifolds. Zbl 0216.45203
Kirby, R. C.; Siebenmann, L. C.
7
1971
Some conjectures about four-manifolds. Zbl 0223.57004
Kirby, R. C.
1
1971
On the triangulation of manifolds and the Hauptvermutung. Zbl 0189.54701
Kirby, R. C.; Siebenmann, L. C.
95
1969
Stable homeomorphisms and the annulus conjecture. Zbl 0176.22004
Kirby, R. C.
52
1969
On the set of non-locally flat points of a submanifold of codimensional one. Zbl 0185.51603
Kirby, R. C.
11
1968
The union of flat \((n-1)\)-balls is flat in \(R^ n\). Zbl 0157.54603
Kirby, Robion C.
4
1968
Smoothing locally flat imbeddings of differentiable manifolds. Zbl 0152.22401
Kirby, R. C.
3
1967
On the annulus conjecture. Zbl 0151.32902
Kirby, R. C.
4
1966
Smoothing locally flat imbeddings. Zbl 0138.18803
Kirby, R. C.
1
1966
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13 Kirby, Robion Cromwell
12 Kwasik, Sławomir
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10 Jones, Lowell Edwin
10 Ruberman, Daniel
9 Akbulut, Selman
9 Gay, David T.
9 Siebenmann, Laurence C.
9 Stoimenow, Alexander
9 Weiss, Michael S.
8 Cavicchioli, Alberto
8 Gilmer, Patrick M.
8 Gompf, Robert E.
8 Kauffman, Louis Hirsch
8 Murakami, Hitoshi
8 Ogasa, Eiji
8 Weinberger, Shmuel
7 Cochran, Thomas (Tim) Daniel
7 Ferry, Steven C.
7 Garoufalidis, Stavros
7 Khan, Qayum
7 Meier, Jeffrey
7 Melvin, Paul M.
7 Powell, Mark
7 Quinn, Frank S.
7 Rybicki, Tomasz
7 Stipsicz, András I.
7 Teichner, Peter
6 Bryant, John Logan
6 Cha, Jae Choon
6 Costantino, Francesco
6 Crowley, Diarmuid John
6 Lisca, Paolo
6 Ray, Arunima
6 Repovš, Dušan D.
6 Saveliev, Nikolai
6 Schultz, Reinhard E.
6 Stern, Ronald John
6 Williams, Bruce
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5 Cappell, Sylvain E.
5 Chapman, Thomas Ashland
5 Daverman, Robert J.
5 Freedman, Michael Hartley
5 Grines, Vyacheslav Zigmundovich
5 Gukov, Sergei
5 Habiro, Kazuo
5 Hambleton, Ian
5 Kreck, Matthias
5 Lambert-Cole, Peter
5 Miller, Maggie
5 Nakamura, Nobuhiro
5 Ohtsuki, Tomotada
5 Sati, Hisham
5 Shiota, Masahiro
5 Sozen, Yasar
5 Spaggiari, Fulvia
5 Takata, Toshie
5 Taylor, Laurence Robert
5 Turaev, Vladimir Georgievich
4 Auckly, David R.
4 Baykur, Refik İnanç
4 Benedetti, Bruno
4 Burghelea, Dan
4 Burton, Benjamin A.
4 Calegari, Danny Matthew Cornelius
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4 Gauld, David B.
4 Geer, Nathan
4 Hayano, Kenta
4 Hegenbarth, Friedrich
4 Hillman, Jonathan Arthur
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4 Hughes, C. Bruce
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4 Pedersen, Erik Kjær
4 Land, Markus
4 Lashof, Richard K.
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4 Levine, Jerome P.
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4 Medvedev, Vladislav Sergeevich
4 Murakami, Jun
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4 Putrov, Pavel
4 Saeki, Osamu
4 Sawin, Stephen F.
4 Scharlemann, Martin G.
4 Spreer, Jonathan
4 Szabo, Zoltan
4 Tange, Motoo
4 Thompson, Abigail A.
4 Vassiliev, Dmitri G.
4 Walker, Kevin
4 Yasui, Kouichi
4 Zupan, Alexander
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...and 1,005 more Authors
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Cited in 201 Serials

90 Topology and its Applications
77 Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
68 Algebraic & Geometric Topology
62 Geometry & Topology
61 Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
61 Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications
48 Inventiones Mathematicae
28 Communications in Mathematical Physics
26 Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
23 Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
23 Mathematische Annalen
21 Advances in Mathematics
19 Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. New Series
18 Geometriae Dedicata
15 Journal of Mathematical Physics
15 Mathematische Zeitschrift
14 Duke Mathematical Journal
14 Journal of Topology
13 Compositio Mathematica
13 International Journal of Mathematics
12 Journal of High Energy Physics
9 Pacific Journal of Mathematics
8 Osaka Journal of Mathematics
8 \(K\)-Theory
8 Journal of the American Mathematical Society
8 Quantum Topology
7 Journal of Geometry and Physics
7 Annales Scientifiques de l’École Normale Supérieure. Quatrième Série
7 Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
7 Manuscripta Mathematica
7 Experimental Mathematics
7 Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics
6 Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
6 Letters in Mathematical Physics
6 Journal of Topology and Analysis
5 Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society
5 Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
5 Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques. Série VI
5 Annals of Mathematics. Second Series
5 Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris
4 Israel Journal of Mathematics
4 Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics
4 Annales de l’Institut Fourier
4 Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik
4 Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
4 Michigan Mathematical Journal
4 Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. Series II
4 Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems
4 International Journal of Algebra and Computation
4 The Journal of Geometric Analysis
4 Expositiones Mathematicae
4 Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics
3 Communications in Algebra
3 Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
3 The Mathematical Intelligencer
3 Acta Mathematica
3 Acta Mathematica Vietnamica
3 Cahiers de Topologie et Géométrie Différentielle Catégoriques
3 Canadian Journal of Mathematics
3 Glasgow Mathematical Journal
3 Publications Mathématiques
3 Journal of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series
3 Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan
3 Journal of Number Theory
3 Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University
3 Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. Second Series
3 European Journal of Combinatorics
3 Forum Mathematicum
3 Differential Geometry and its Applications
3 Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York)
3 The New York Journal of Mathematics
3 Selecta Mathematica. New Series
3 Conformal Geometry and Dynamics
3 Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS)
3 Acta Mathematica Sinica. English Series
3 Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society
3 Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures
3 Forum of Mathematics, Sigma
3 Winter Braids Lecture Notes
2 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
2 Mathematical Notes
2 Nuclear Physics. B
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2 Ukrainian Mathematical Journal
2 Reviews in Mathematical Physics
2 Archiv der Mathematik
2 Functional Analysis and its Applications
2 Fundamenta Mathematicae
2 Illinois Journal of Mathematics
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2 Integral Equations and Operator Theory
2 Journal of Algebra
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2 Monatshefte für Mathematik
2 Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Third Series
2 Results in Mathematics
2 L’Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série
2 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2 Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences
2 Chinese Science Bulletin
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Cited in 50 Fields

951 Manifolds and cell complexes (57-XX)
148 Algebraic topology (55-XX)
126 Differential geometry (53-XX)
92 Quantum theory (81-XX)
88 Global analysis, analysis on manifolds (58-XX)
58 Group theory and generalizations (20-XX)
57 Algebraic geometry (14-XX)
52 General topology (54-XX)
44 Category theory; homological algebra (18-XX)
42 Nonassociative rings and algebras (17-XX)
39 Dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-XX)
36 Several complex variables and analytic spaces (32-XX)
26 Number theory (11-XX)
24 Topological groups, Lie groups (22-XX)
21 Associative rings and algebras (16-XX)
18 \(K\)-theory (19-XX)
17 Combinatorics (05-XX)
17 Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX)
14 Functions of a complex variable (30-XX)
12 Convex and discrete geometry (52-XX)
12 Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX)
11 Computer science (68-XX)
10 Partial differential equations (35-XX)
9 History and biography (01-XX)
9 Measure and integration (28-XX)
9 Functional analysis (46-XX)
8 Geometry (51-XX)
6 Real functions (26-XX)
6 Approximations and expansions (41-XX)
4 Linear and multilinear algebra; matrix theory (15-XX)
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3 Potential theory (31-XX)
3 Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization (49-XX)
3 Statistics (62-XX)
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2 Field theory and polynomials (12-XX)
2 Ordinary differential equations (34-XX)
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1 Operator theory (47-XX)
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