Binding conjecture for open books with prescribed negative twists

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Let Mk\mathcal M_k, for k≥0k\geq 0, be the set of closed, oriented, smooth 33-manifolds admitting open book decompositions whose monodromies contain at most kk negative Dehn twists, and set M−1=∅\mathcal M_{-1}=\emptyset. Let M∈Mk∖Mk−1M\in\mathcal M_k\setminus\mathcal M_{k-1}, and let LL be any link in MM. Binding conjecture. There exists a knot L′L' such that L∪L′L\cup L' is the binding of an open book decomposition of MM whose monodromy contains exactly kk negative Dehn twists. This proposes that the binding of an open book can be chosen with substantial freedom even when the number of negative Dehn twists required by the manifold is prescribed; the source provides no resolution of the conjecture.

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Masaharu Ishikawa, “Stein fillable 3-manifolds admit positive open book decompositions along arbitrary links”, arXiv:math/0402290 (2004).

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