Positive braid closures and taut foliations
Geometric Topology
2026-02-23 v1
Abstract
We study taut foliations on the complements of non-split positive braid closures in . If is such a link with components and at least one component is not the unknot, then the Dehn surgery along a multislope satisfying for yields a non-L-space that admits a co-oriented taut foliation.
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@article{arxiv.2602.17863,
title = {Positive braid closures and taut foliations},
author = {Zipei Nie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.17863},
year = {2026}
}
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27 pages, 6 figures