Publications and preprints

Publications:

-Valentina Bais, Younes Benyahia, Oliviero Malech and Rafael Torres, "A recipe for exotic 2-links in closed 4-manifolds whose components are topological unknots", Pacific Journal of Mathematics, Volume 338 (2025)

-Valentina Bais and Rafael Torres, "Smooth structures on non-orientable 4-manifolds via twisting operations", Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 57, Issue 6 (2025)

-Valentina Bais, "On Dold-Whitney's parallelizability of 4-manifolds", Topology and its Applications, Volume 359, Part A, (2025)

-Valentina Bais, Victor Gustavo May Custodio and Rafael Torres, "Existence results of Spin(2,n-1)_0-pseudo-Riemannian cobordisms", Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. Serie A. Matematicas, Volume 118, article number 130, (2024)

-Valentina Bais and Daniele Zuddas, "On Stiefel’s parallelizability of 3-manifolds", Expositiones Mathematicae, Volume 41, Issue 1, 2023, Pages 238-243.

Accepted for publication:

-Valentina Bais, "Pin-structures on non-oriented 4-manifolds via Lefschetz fibrations", arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.01848 (2025). Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics.

Oberwolfach workshop report:

-MATRIX-MFO Tandem Workshop: Invariants in Low-Dimensional Topology: Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation

 Preprints:

- Valentina Bais, Alessio Di Prisa, Daniel Hartman, Chun-Sheng Hsueh, Marc Kegel, Alice Merz, Mark Pencovitch, Arunima Ray, Diego Santoro, Paula Truöl and Laura Wakelin, "On the detection of knotted spheres by their traces in high dimensions". arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.07251 (2025).

-Valentina Bais, Riccardo Piergallini and Daniele Zuddas, "Branched covering representation of non-orientable 4-manifolds", arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.09319 (2025).

-Valentina Bais and Rafael Torres, "A cut-and-paste mechanism to introduce fundamental group and construct new four-manifolds", arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.23167 (2025).

-Valentina Bais, Rafael Torres and Daniele Zuddas, "Some examples of small irreducible exotic 4-manifolds with free abelian fundamental group", arxiv preprint arXiv:2410.06642 (2024).