Montesinos–Morton branched-cover conjecture for fibered links
Montesinos–Morton branched-cover conjecture for fibered links
Let be a fibered link in . A simple branched cover is a map branched over a link , and and are unknots that are braid axes of . Montesinos–Morton's conjecture. For every fibered link , there is a simple branched cover
branched over a link and two unknots and , which are braid axes of , such that and is the unknot. Montesinos and Morton proved this for fibered links obtained from the unknot and its fiber disk by Hopf plumbings without deplumbings; the general assertion remains open.
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Primary source
Benjamin Bode and Chun-Sheng Hsueh, “Mutual arc presentations and braided open books”, arXiv:2511.21837 (2025).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2021–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2111.05187.
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