Publications - D. D. Long


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  1. Strongly plus amphicheiral knots are algebraically slice. Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. vol. 95 (1984), pp. 309 - 312.
  2. Planar kernels in surface groups. Oxford Quart. J. of Math. vol. 35 (1984), pp. 305 - 310.
  3. (with A. J. Casson) Algorithmic compression of surface automorphisms. Inventiones Math. vol. 81 (1985), pp. 295 - 303.
  4. A note on the normal subgroups of mapping class groups. Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. vol. 99 (1986), pp. 295 - 303.
  5. Constructing pseudo-Anosov maps.Knots and manifolds. Ed. D. Rolfsen. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes No. 1144, pp. 108 - 114.
  6. Discs in compression bodies. Pacific Journal of Math. vol. 122 (1986), pp. 129 - 146.
  7. (with H. R. Morton) Hyperbolic 3-manifolds and surface automorphisms. Topology vol. 25 (1986), pp. 575 - 583.
  8. (with S. Kojima)Virtual Betti numbers of some hyperbolic manifolds. A Fete of Topology. Ed. Y. Matsumoto et al. Academic Press, pp. 417 - 437.
  9. Maximal subgroups in mapping class groups. Preprint.
  10. Immersions and embeddings of totally geodesic surfaces. Bulletin London Math. Society vol. 19 (1987), pp. 481 - 484.
  11. (with S. P. Humphries) On the Mal'cev quotients of certain hyperbolic link groups. Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. vol. 102 (1987), pp. 475 - 480.
  12. Bounding laminations. Duke J. of Math. vol. 56 (1988), pp. 1 - 16.
  13. (with U. Oertel) Hyperbolic surface bundles over the circle. Progress in Knot theory and related topics. No. 56 (1997) pp. 121 - 142.
  14. Engulfing and subgroup separability for hyperbolic groups. Transactions of the American Math. Society. vol. 308 (1988), pp. 849 - 859.
  15. On the linear representation of braid groups. Transactions of the American Math. Society. vol. 311 (1989), pp. 535 - 560.
  16. On the linear representation of braid groups II. Duke J. of Math. vol. 59 (1989), pp. 443 - 460.
  17. On pseudo-Anosov maps which extend over two handlebodies. Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc. vol. 33 (1990), pp.181 - 190.
  18. (with G. Niblo) Subgroup separability and 3-manifold groups. Math. Zeitschrift vol. 207 (1991), pp. 209 - 215.
  19. (with D. Cooper) An undetected slope in a knot manifold. Topology 90: Proceedings of the Ohio Conference. pp. 111- 121.
  20. (with C. Frohman) Casson's invariant and surgery on knots. Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc. vol. 35 (1992), pp. 383 - 395.
  21. (with D. Cooper) Representing knot groups into SL(2,C). Proceedings American Math. Society vol. 116 (1992) pp. 547 - 549
  22. (with D. Cooper) Derivative varieties and the pure braid group. American J. of Math. vol. 115 (1993) pp. 137 - 160.
  23. (with A. W. Reid) Closed incompressible surfaces in 2-generator hyperbolic 3-manifolds with a single cusp. Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc. vol. 36 (1993) pp. 501 - 513.
  24. (with M. Paton) The Burau Representation is not faithful for n >= 6. Topology vol. 32 (1993) pp. 439 - 447.
  25. (with D. Cooper) Roots of unity associated to the character variety of a knot complement. Journal of the Australian Math. Soc. vol. 55 (1993) pp. 90 - 99.
  26. (with J.S. Birman and J. Moody) Finite dimensional representations of Artin's Braid group. The Mathematical legacy of W. Magnus. Ed. W. Abikoff et al. Contemporary Math. vol. 169 pp. 123 -132.
  27. (with D. Cooper, M. Culler, H. Gillett and P. B. Shalen) Plane curves associated to character varieties of 3-manifolds. Inventiones Math. vol. 118 (1994) pp. 47 - 84.
  28. (with D. Cooper and A. W. Reid) Bundles and finite foliations. Inventiones Math. vol. 118 (1994) pp. 255 - 283.
  29. Constructing representations of braid groups. Communications in Geometry and Analysis. vol. 2 (1994) pp. 217 - 238.
  30. (with D. Cooper) A Kleinian group with contractible quotient not simply connected at infinity. Comment. Math. Helv. vol. 71 (1996) pp. 41 - 59.
  31. (with D. Cooper) Remarks on the A-polynomial of a knot. Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications. vol. 5, (1996) pp. 609 - 628.
  32. (with D. Cooper and A.W. Reid) Finite foliations and similarity interval exchange maps. Topology. vol 36, (1996) pp. 209 - 227.
  33. (with D. Cooper) The A-polynomial has ones in the corners. Bulletin London Math. Soc. vol.29 (1997), pp. 231--238.
  34. (with C. Maclachlan and A.W. Reid) Splitting groups of signature (1:n). Journal of Algebra. vol 185, (1996) pp. 329 - 341.
  35. (with D. Cooper) A presentation for the image of Burau(4) tensor Z2. Inventiones Math. vol. 127 (1997), pp. 535 - 570.
  36. (with D. Cooper) Foliations of some 3-manifolds which fiber over the circle. Proceedings American Math. Society vol. 126 (1998), pp. 925 - 931.
  37. (with D. Cooper) Representation theory and the A-polynomial of a knot. Chaos Theory \& Solitons, vol. 9 (1998) pp.749 - 765.
  38. (with D. Cooper and A. W. Reid) Essential surfaces in bounded 3-manifolds. Journal American Math. Society vol. 10 (1997) pp. 553 - 564.
  39. (with D. Cooper and A. W. Reid) Infinite Coxeter groups are virtually indicable. Proceedings Edinburgh Math. Soc. vol. 41 (1998) pp. 303 - 313.
  40. (with A.W. Reid) Simple quotients of hyperbolic 3-manifold groups. Proceedings American Math. Society vol. 126 (1998), pp. 877 - 880.
  41. (with A.W. Reid) Free products with amalgamation and p-adic Lie groups. Canadian Math. Bull. vol. 41 (1998), no. 4, pp. 423--433.
  42. (with A.W. Reid) On Fuchsian groups with the same set of axes. Bulletin London Math. Society vol. 30 (1998), no. 5, 533 - 538.
  43. (With D. Cooper) Trimming, J. of Experimental Mathematics, vol. 7 (1998) pp. 325 - 332.
  44. (With D. Cooper) The Burau representation modulo a small prime. Geometry and Topology Monographs, vol 1.The Epstein Birthday Schrift, pp. 127-138.
  45. (with D. Cooper) Free actions of finite groups on rational homology spheres. Topology and its Applications, vol. 101, (2000) pp. 143-148
  46. (with A. W. Reid) Commensurability and the character variety. Mathematical Research Letters, vol. 6 (1999) pp. 581- 592.
  47. (with D. Cooper) Virtually Haken Dehn filling. Journal of Differential Geometry, vol. 52, (1999) pp. 173-187.
  48. (with A. W. Reid) On the geometric boundaries of hyperbolic 4-manifolds. Geometry and Topology, vol. 4 (2000) pp. 171 - 178.
  49. (with D. Cooper) Some surface subgroups survive surgery. Geometry and Topology, vol. 5 (2001) pp. 347 - 367.
  50. (with I. Agol and A. W. Reid) The Bianchi groups are separable on geometrically finite subgroups. Annals of Math. vol. 153 (2001) pp. 599 - 621.
  51. (with A. W. Reid) On subgroup separability in hyperbolic Coxeter groups. Geom. Dedicata vol. 87 (2001) pp. 245 - 260.
  52. (with A. W. Reid) Integral points on character varieties. Math. Annalen vol. 325 (2003), pp. 299--321.
  53. (with A. W. Reid) The fundamental group of the double of the figure eight knot exterior is GFERF. Bulletin London Math. Society vol. 3 (2001) pp. 391 - 396.
  54. (with A. W. Reid) Constructing hyperbolic manifolds which bound geometrically. Math. Research Letters vol. 8 (2001), pp. 443--455
  55. (with A. W. Reid) Pseudomodular surfaces. J. Reine Angew. Math. vol. 552 (2002) pp. 77 - 100.
  56. (with A. W. Reid) All flat manifolds are cusps of hyperbolic orbifolds. Algebraic and Geometric Topology, vol. 2 (2002) pp. 285-296.
  57. (with C. McA. Gordon and A. W. Reid) Surface subgroups of Coxeter and Artin groups., Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, vol.189 (2004) pp. 135 - 148
  58. (With A. W. Reid) On asymmetric hyperbolic manifolds., Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. vol.138 (2005) pp. 301 - 306
  59. (with A. W. Reid) Generalized Dedekind sums., Proceedings of the Casson Fest, Geometry and Topology Monographs, vol. 7 (2004), pp. 205--212.
  60. (with A. W. Reid) Surface subgroups and subgroup separability in 3-manifold topology, 25th Coloquio Brasileiro de Matematica, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, 2005.
  61. (with T. Chinburg and A. W. Reid) Cusps of minimal noncompact arithmetic 3-orbifolds., Pure and Applied Math. Quarterly, vol. 4, (2008) pp. 1013--1031. (volume in honour of J. P. Serre)
  62. (with C. Maclachlan and A. W. Reid) Arithmetic fuchsian groups of genus zero., Pure and Applied Math. Quarterly vol. 2 (2006), pp. 569--599.
  63. (with A. W. Reid) Subgroup separability and virtual retractions of groups., Topology vol. 47 (2008) pp. 137 - 159. (Note that this article was submitted in 2004)
  64. (with D. Cooper and M. Thistlethwaite) Computing varieties of representations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds into $SL(4,{\bf R})$., J. of Experimental Math. vol. 15 (2006) pp. 291 -- 305.
  65. (with D. Cooper and M. Thistlethwaite) Flexing closed hyperbolic manifolds., Geometry & Topology vol. 11 (2007) pp. 2413-2440
  66. (with M. Lackenby and A. W. Reid) Covering spaces of arithmetic 3-orbifolds., Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN (2008), no. 12, doi: rnn036 38 pages
  67. (with T. Chinburg, E. Hamilton and A. W. Reid) Geodesics and commensurability classes of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds., Duke Math. Journal vol. 145 (2008) pp 25-44.
  68. (with D. Cooper and A. W. Reid) On the virtual Betti numbers of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Geometry & Topology vol. 11 (2007) pp. 2265-2276
  69. (with A. Lubotzky and A. W. Reid) Heegaard genus and Property τ for hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Journal of Topology vol. 1 (2008) pp. 152 - 158.
  70. (with A. W. Reid) Finding fibre faces in finite covers. Math. Research Letters vol. 15 (2008) pp. 521-524
  71. (with M. Lackenby and A. W. Reid) LERF and the Lubotzky-Sarnak Conjecture Geometry and Topology, vol. 12 (2008) pp. 2047 - 2056
  72. (with D. Cooper and M. Thistlethwaite) Constructing non-congruence subgroups of flexible hyperbolic 3-manifold groups Proc. A.M.S. vol. 137 (2009), pp. 3943-3949
  73. (with A. W. Reid) Eigenvalues of hyperbolic elements in Kleinian groups. Contemporary Math. vol. 510, In the Tradition of Ahlfors-Bers, pp. 197-208
  74. (with C. Leininger and A. W. Reid) Commensurators of finitely generated non-free Kleinian groups. Algebraic and Geometric Topology, vol. 11 (2011) pp. 605-624
  75. (with A. W. Reid) Grothendieck's problem for 3-manifold groups. Groups, Geometry and Dynamics, vol. 5 (2011) pp. 479 - 499
  76. (with A. W. Reid) Small subgroups of SL(3,Z). Experimental Math. vol. 20, (2011) pp. 412-425.
  77. (with A. W. Reid and M. Thistlethwaite) Zariski dense surface subgroups in SL(3,Z). Geometry and Topology, vol. 15 (2011) pp. 1 - 9
  78. (with A. W. Reid) Fields of definition of canonical curves. Interactions Between Hyperbolic Geometry, Quantum Topology and Number Theory, Contemporary Math. vol. 541 (2011), pp. 247 - 257
  79. (with D. Cooper and S. Tillmann) On convex projective manifolds and cusps Advances in Math. vol. 277 (2015) pp. 181 - 251.
  80. (with A. W. Reid) Constructing thin subgroups in SL(4,R) International Math. Research Notices. vol. 2014 No. 7 (2014) pp. 2006 -- 2016. doi: 10.1093/imrn/rns281
  81. (with A. W. Reid) Constructing thin groups. Thin Groups and superstrong approximation, MSRI Publications vol. 61 (2013) pp. 151 -166.
  82. (with D. Cooper) A generalization of the Epstein-Penner construction to projective manifolds. Proc. A.M.S. vol. 143 (2015) pp. 4561-4569.
  83. (with M. Thistlethwaite) Lenstra-Hurwitz cliques and the class number one problem. Journal of Number Theory vol. 162 (2016) pp. 564 --- 577
  84. (with S. Ballas ) Constructing thin subgroups commensurable with the figure-eight knot group. Algebraic and Geometric Topology vol. 15 (2015), pp. 3009--3022. doi: 10.2140/agt.2015.15.3009

  85. (with A. W. Reid) Thin surface subgroups in cocompact lattices in SL(3,R) Illinois J. of Math. vol. 60 (2016) pp. 39 --- 53
  86. (with D. Cooper and S. Tillmann) Deforming convex projective manifolds Geometry and Topology, vol. 22 (2018), pp. 1349 -- 1404
  87. (with M. Thistlethwaite) Zariski dense surface subgroups in SL(4,Z). J. of Experimental Math. vol. 27 (2018) pp. 82 -- 92.

  88. (with M. Thistlethwaite) The Dimension of the Hitchin Component for Triangle Groups. Geometriae Dedicata vol. 200 (2019) pp. 363 -- 370. https://doi.org/10.1007/s1071

  89. (with A. W. Reid) Sequences of high rank lattices of large systole containing a fixed genus surface group. New York Journal of Math, vol. 25 (2019), pp. 145 -- 155.

  90. (with S. Ballas) Constructing thin subgroups of SL(n+1,R) via bending. Algebraic and Geometric Topology, vol. 20 (2020), pp. 2071 -- 2093.

  91. (with A. Kontorovich, A. Lubotzky & A. W. Reid) What is.... a Thin Group? Notices A.M.S. vol. 66 (2019) pp. 905 -- 910.

  92. (with A. W. Reid) Virtually spinning hyperbolic manifolds. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Math. Soc. vol. 63 (2020), pp. 305 -- 313.

  93. (with M. Thistlethwaite) Zariski dense surface groups in SL(2k+1,Z). To appear in Geometry and Topology

  94. (with A. W. Reid) Strongly dense representations of surface groups. To appear

  95. (with A. W. Reid & M. Wolff ) Most Hitchin representations are strongly dense. To appear in Michigan Journal of Math.

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