English

Extending fibrations on knot complements to ribbon disk complements

Geometric Topology 2022-09-27 v2

Abstract

We show that if KK is a fibered ribbon knot in S3=B4S^3=\partial B^4 bounding a ribbon disk DD, then given an extra transversality condition the fibration on S3ν(K)S^3\setminus\nu(K) extends to a fibration of B4ν(D)B^4\setminus\nu(D). This partially answers a question of Casson and Gordon. In particular, we show the fibration always extends when DD has exactly two local minima. More generally, we construct movies of singular fibrations on 44-manifolds and describe a sufficient property of a movie to imply the underlying 44-manifold is fibered over S1S^1.

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@article{arxiv.1811.09639,
  title  = {Extending fibrations on knot complements to ribbon disk complements},
  author = {Maggie Miller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.09639},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

61 pages, 52 figures, one flipbook. Version 2 agrees with published version; in particular many typos corrected and figures improved