Jason DeBlois
Department of Mathematics
Thackeray 407
Email: my first initial followed immediately by my last name, at "pitt.edu"
Extension: 4-0198

Chern-Simons theory: geometry, topology and physics, May 4-6 in Thackeray 704.
Math 420: Introduction to One-variable Calculus

Preprints

  • Tessellations of hyperbolic surfaces. arXiv:1103.4604
  • The geometry of cyclic hyperbolic polygons. arXiv:1101.4971
  • Algebraic invariants, mutation, and commensurability of link complements (with Eric Chesebro). arXiv:1202.0765
  • Rank gradients of infinite cyclic covers of 3-manifolds (with Stefan Friedl and Stefano Vidussi). arXiv:1212.4192
  • Papers

  • Cross curvature flow on a negatively curved solid torus (with Dan Knopf and Andrea Young). Algebraic and Geometric Topology 10, no. 1, 343--372.
  • Some virtually special hyperbolic 3-manifold groups (with Chesebro and Henry Wilton). Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 87 (2012), no. 3, 727--787.
  • Volume and topology of bounded and closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds (with Peter Shalen). Communications in Analysis and Geometry 17, no. 5, 797--850.
  • Incompressible surfaces, hyperbolic volume, Heegaard genus, and homology (with Marc Culler and Shalen). Comm. Anal. Geom. 17, no. 2, 155--185.
  • On the doubled tetrus. Geometriae Dedicata 144, 1--23.
  • Totally geodesic surfaces and homology. Algebr. Geom. Topol. 6, 1413--1428.
  • Surface groups are frequently faithful. (with Richard Kent) Duke Mathematical Journal 131, no. 2, 351--362.


  • Totally geodesic surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds. My U.T. thesis. (My advisor: Alan Reid)

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