Conjecture on irreducible fibered knots and negative Thurston–Bennequin invariant

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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.

References

Primary source

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

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