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Ribbon concordance and fibered predecessors

Geometric Topology 2025-10-03 v1

Abstract

Given any knot K in the 3-sphere, we prove that there are only finitely many hyperbolic fibered knots which are ribbon concordant to K. It follows that every fibered knot in the 3-sphere has only finitely many hyperbolic predecessors under ribbon concordance. Our proof combines results about maps on Floer homology induced by ribbon cobordisms with a relationship between the knot Floer homology of a fibered knot and fixed points of its monodromy. We then use the same techniques in combination with results of Cornish and Kojima-McShane to prove an inequality relating the volumes of ribbon concordant hyperbolic fibered knots.

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@article{arxiv.2510.02214,
  title  = {Ribbon concordance and fibered predecessors},
  author = {John A. Baldwin and Steven Sivek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.02214},
  year   = {2025}
}

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