English

Band surgeries and crossing changes between fibered links

Geometric Topology 2017-05-17 v3

Abstract

We characterize cutting arcs on fiber surfaces that produce new fiber surfaces, and the changes in monodromy resulting from such cuts. As a corollary, we characterize band surgeries between fibered links and introduce an operation called Generalized Hopf banding. We further characterize generalized crossing changes between fibered links, and the resulting changes in monodromy.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1304.6781,
  title  = {Band surgeries and crossing changes between fibered links},
  author = {Dorothy Buck and Kai Ishihara and Matt Rathbun and Koya Shimokawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.6781},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

27 pages, 10 figures. New version has substantially shortened proof of a key lemma. Additionally, results about monodromy changes have been added

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