Conjecture on irreducible fibered knots and negative Thurston–Bennequin invariant

Let KK be a fibered knot in S3S^3 with irreducible monodromy, and suppose that KK does not support the standard contact structure ξstd\xi_{std}. Irreducible-monodromy conjecture. Then

\tbb(K)1.\tbb(K)\leq -1.

The conjecture asserts that the known positive Thurston–Bennequin examples outside the supported contact structure arise from reducible monodromy. 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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