Knots on a positive template have a bounded number of prime factors

DOI10.2140/AGT.2005.5.563MaRDI QIDQ2571357zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael C. Sullivan

Publication date 1 November 2005

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0507294, https://eudml.org/doc/126123

zbMATH Keywords

Hyperbolic flows, templates, prime knots, composite knots, positive braids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45)

Abstract: Templates are branched 2-manifolds with semi-flows used to model `chaotic' hyperbolic invariant sets of flows on 3-manifolds. Knotted orbits on a template correspond to those in the original flow. Birman and Williams conjectured that for any given template the number of prime factors of the knots realized would be bounded. We prove a special case when the template is positive; the general case is now known to be false.

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