Studying links via closed braids. II: On a theorem of Bennequin

DOI10.1016/0166-8641(91)90059-UzbMath0722.57001OpenAlexW2016967347MaRDI QIDQ756203

Joan S. Birman, William W. Menasco

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-8641(91)90059-u

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Euler characteristicLinksspanning surfaces

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Related Items (18)

Band-generator presentation for the 4-braid group ⋮ Genera of some closed 4-braids ⋮ Positivities of Knots and Links and the Defect of Bennequin Inequality ⋮ A quantitative Birman–Menasco finiteness theorem and its application to crossing number ⋮ Braided open book decompositions in \(S^{3}\) ⋮ Sublinks of strongly quasipositive links ⋮ Visualizing overtwisted discs in open books ⋮ Studying links via closed braids. IV: Composite links and split links ⋮ Operations on open book foliations ⋮ Essential open book foliations and fractional Dehn twist coefficient ⋮ On McMullen's and other inequalities for the Thurston norm of link complements ⋮ Open book foliation ⋮ Complements of hyperbolic knots of braid index four contain no closed embedded totally geodesic surfaces ⋮ 3-braid knots do not admit purely cosmetic surgeries ⋮ The defect of Bennequin-Eliashberg inequality and Bennequin surfaces ⋮ Overtwisted discs in planar open books ⋮ ON THE DEFINITION OF GRAPH INDEX ⋮ A NOTE ON KNOT FERTILITY

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