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 - Essential annuli in genus two handlebody exteriors, to appear in Algebraic & Geometric Topology. (with Yuya Koda, Yi-Sheng Wang)
 
In submission or preparation
			- Forbidden complexes for the 3-sphere, arXiv:2403.18279. (with Mario Eudave-Munoz)
			
 - On symmetry and exterior problems of knotted handlebodies, arXiv:2506.06713. (with Yuya Koda, Yi-Sheng Wang)
			
 - Tritangle decompositions of genus two handlebody-knots. (with Yi-Sheng Wang)
 
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- 結び目と曲面, 数学セミナー 2018年7月号, 13--19.
 - 結び目と曲面, 祝祷 文化講演集 第19輯, 駒澤大学 (2018) 69--76.
 - アレクサンダーの角付き球面, 数学セミナー 2019年11月号, 83.
 
Unpublished
- Thin position for incompressible surfaces in 3-manifolds. (with Kazuhiro Ichihara and J. Hyam Rubinstein)
 - Edge number of knots and links
 - A property of diagrams of the trivial knot
 - Uniqueness of primitive embeddings of the Petersen graph
 - Complexity of embeddings of a graph into the $3$-sphere
 - Forbidden minors for apex graphs
 - Tangle decompositions of knots and links
 - Thin position of manifolds
 - Essential free decompositions of knot exteriors 
 - Interpolating manifolds for knots
 
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