Conjecture on irreducible fibered knots and negative Thurston–Bennequin invariant
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.
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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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