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Trefoil Plumbing

Geometric Topology 2016-05-06 v1

Abstract

We give a criterion for an open book to contain an n-times iterated Hopf plumbing summand. As an application, we show that fibre surfaces of positive braid knots admit a trefoil plumbing structure.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1308.5866,
  title  = {Trefoil Plumbing},
  author = {Sebastian Baader and Pierre Dehornoy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.5866},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

13 pages, 10 figures

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