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Yo’av Rieck

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University of Arkansas

Also affiliated: University of California, Santa Barbara (2000–2001); Nara Women's University (2002–2006)

Faculty Researcher

10 h-index 59 pubs 329 cited

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Yo’av Rieck is a faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. His research interests are in mathematics, with a focus on areas related to group theory and topology. Rieck has published work on subshifts of finite type on hyperbolic groups, exploring their properties and existence. He has also investigated concepts in knot theory, specifically the hardness of unknotting problems. Other research areas include the structure of orbifolds and thermodynamic metrics on outer space. His scholarly work has resulted in 60 publications, with a total of 326 citations and an h-index of 10. Rieck collaborates with other researchers at the University of Arkansas, including Matt Clay and Rachel Lehman, contributing to a shared publication record.

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  • h-index: 10
  • Publications: 59
  • Citations: 329

Selected Publications

  • Strongly aperiodic SFTs on hyperbolic groups: where to find them and why we love them (2023)
    Revista de la Unión Matemática Argentina 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • A structure theorem for bad 3-orbifolds (2022)
    European Journal of Mathematics DOI OpenAlex
  • The unbearable hardness of unknotting (2021)
    Advances in Mathematics 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Strongly aperiodic subshifts of finite type on hyperbolic groups (2021)
    Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Embeddability in R <sup>3</sup> is NP-hard (2020)
    Journal of the ACM 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Embeddability in R^3 is NP-hard (2018)
    HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • The growth rate of the tunnel number of m-small knots (2018)
    Pacific Journal of Mathematics DOI OpenAlex
  • Cosmetic surgery and the link volume of hyperbolic 3–manifolds (2016)
    Algebraic & Geometric Topology 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The spectrum of the growth rate of the tunnel number is infinite (2015)
    Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society DOI OpenAlex
  • Strong cylindricality and the monodromy of bundles (2015)
    Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society DOI OpenAlex
  • Hyperbolic volume and Heegaard distance (2014)
    Communications in Analysis and Geometry 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Strong cylindricality and the monodromy of bundles (2013)
    arXiv (Cornell University) DOI OpenAlex
  • The link volume of 3–manifolds (2013)
    Algebraic & Geometric Topology 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The Link Volumes of some prism manifolds (2012)
    arXiv (Cornell University) DOI OpenAlex
  • The link volumes of some prism manifolds (2012)
    Algebraic & Geometric Topology 6 citations DOI OpenAlex

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