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Four constructions of Seifert surfaces - Hopf plumbing, arborescent plumbing, basketry, and T-bandword handle decomposition - are described, and some interrelationships found, e.g.: arborescent Seifert surfaces are baskets; Hopf-plumbed baskets are precisely homogeneous T-bandword surfaces. A Seifert surface is Hopf-pl…
Let L be an oriented link with an alternating diagram D. It is known that L is a fibered link if and only if the surface R obtained by applying Seifert's algorithm to D is a Hopf plumbing. Here, we call R a Hopf plumbing if R is obtained by successively plumbing finite number of Hopf bands to a disk. In t…
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.
By a theorem of A'Campo, the eigenvalues of certain Coxeter transformations are positive real or lie on the unit circle. By optimally bounding the signature of tree-like positive Hopf plumbings from below by the genus, we prove that at least two thirds of them lie on the unit circle. In contrast, we show that for divid…
We show that two open books in a given closed, oriented three-manifold admit isotopic stabilizations, where the stabilization is made by successive plumbings with Hopf bands, if and only if their associated plane fields are homologous. Since this condition is automatically fulfilled in an integral homology sphere, the …
Given a fibered link, consider the characteristic polynomial of the monodromy restricted to first homology. This generalizes the notion of the Alexander polynomial of a knot. We define a construction, called iterated plumbing, to create a sequence of fibered links from a given one. The resulting sequence of characteris…
Among all torus links, we characterise those arising as links of simple plane curve singularities by the property that their fibre surfaces admit only a finite number of cutting arcs that preserve fibredness. The same property allows a characterisation of Coxeter-Dynkin trees (i.e., An, Dn, E6, E7 and E8…
New links identified with Alexander polynomial signs to detect satellite links.
problem Detecting satellite links using Alexander polynomial coefficients.
method Introduced a set of links including positive braids and arborescent Hopf plumbings. Showed links in this set have opposite signs for leading and second coefficients of Alexander polynomials.
result Certain satellite links, like (n,1)-cables, are not in the set of links with opposite sign coefficients.
Using Hirasawa-Murasugi's classification of fibered Montesinos knots we classify the L-space Montesinos knots, providing further evidence towards a conjecture of Lidman-Moore that L-space knots have no essential Conway spheres. In the process, we classify the fibered Montesinos knots whose open books support the tight …
We define the basket number, the flat plumbing number and the flat plumbing basket number of a link. Then we provide some upperbounds for these plumbing numbers by using Seifert's algorithm. We study the relation between these plumbing numbers and the genera of links.
Flat plumbing basket surfaces of links were introduced to study the geometry of the complement of the links. These flat plumbing basket surface can be presented by a sequential presentation known as flat plumbing basket code first found by Furihata, Hirasawa and Kobayashi. The minimum number of flat plumbings to obtain…
Let S(D) be the surface produced by applying Seifert's algorithm to the oriented link diagram D. I prove that if D has no negative crossings then S(D) is a quasipositive Seifert surface, that is, S(D) embeds incompressibly on a fiber surface plumbed from positive Hopf annuli. This result, combined with the truth of the…
Two special moves relate any two open book decompositions of a 3-manifold.
problem Relating any two open book decompositions of a 3-manifold.
method Using 4-dimensional Lefschetz fibrations and 3-dimensional contact topology, including Harer's twisting and Giroux-Goodman stable equivalence theorem.
result A complete set of two moves suffices to relate any two open book decompositions of a given 3-manifold.
The existence of basket, flat plumbing and flat plumbing basket surfaces of a link was first proven from a braid representative of the link. In the present article, we show the existence of such surfaces from an induced graph of the link. Consequently, we define the basket number, flat plumbing number and flat plumbing…
Flat plumbing basket surfaces of links were introduced to study the geometry of the complement of the links. In present article, we study links of the flat plumbing basket numbers 4 or less using a special presentation of the flat plumbing basket surfaces. We find a complete classification theorem of links of the fla…
We consider double plumbings of two disk bundles over spheres. We calculate the Heegaard-Floer homology with its absolute grading of the boundary of such a plumbing. Given a closed smooth 4-manifold X and a suitable pair of classes in H2(X), we investigate when this pair of classes may be represented by a config…
Study on Δ invariants of plumbed 3-manifolds, comparing with Heegaard-Floer homology.
problem Analyzing Δ invariants of plumbed 3-manifolds.
method Expressing Δ of Seifert manifolds in terms of singularity theory invariants, providing examples for non-Seifert manifolds, comparing with Heegaard-Floer homology.
result Interesting behavior of Δ invariants for non-Seifert manifolds, comparison with Heegaard-Floer homology.
Let M be a rational homology sphere plumbed 3-manifold associated with a connected negative definite plumbing graph. We show that its Seiberg-Witten invariants equal certain coefficients of an equivariant multivariable Ehrhart polynomial. For this, we construct the corresponding polytopes from the plumbing graphs toget…