Embedded annuli and Jones' conjecture

DOI10.2140/AGT.2014.14.3589MaRDI QIDQ488581zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Douglas J. Lafountain, W. Menasco

Publication date 26 January 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1247

zbMATH Keywords

linksbraidsbraid indexquasipositive braidsalgebraic braid lengthbraid fibrationbraid foliationsbraid stabilizationJones' conjecturetransverse links

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We show that after stabilizations of opposite parity and braid isotopy, any two braids in the same topological link type cobound embedded annuli. We use this to prove the generalized Jones conjecture relating the braid index and algebraic length of closed braids within a link type, following a reformulation of the problem by Kawamuro.

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