Conjecture on positive Thurston–Bennequin representatives of fibered knots

Let KK be a fibered knot, and let ξK\xi_K be the contact structure it supports in the sense of Giroux. Positive Thurston–Bennequin conjecture. In ξK\xi_K, the knot type KK has Legendrian representatives with Thurston–Bennequin invariant greater than 00.

This conjecture is motivated by known examples and by the partial result that a non-trivial fibered knot supporting ξK\xi_K has \tbb(K)0\tbb(K)\geq 0. The source gives no resolution status.

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John Etnyre, Youlin Li and Bülent Tosun, “Knotted solid tori in contact manifolds”, arXiv:2502.15165 (2025).

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