Conjecture on irreducible fibered knots and negative Thurston–Bennequin invariant
Let be a fibered knot in with irreducible monodromy, and suppose that does not support the standard contact structure . Irreducible-monodromy conjecture. Then
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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