Rudolph's characterization conjecture for quasipositive ribbons
Rudolph's characterization conjecture for quasipositive ribbons
Let . A smoothly embedded surface is ribbon-embedded if and the restriction of to is a Morse function with no local maxima on . If is a regular value with , set ; a pair obtained this way is a ribbon-embedded pair. A surface ambient isotopic to a ribbon-embedded surface is a ribbon, and a subsurface of a ribbon is a subribbon if is ambient isotopic to a ribbon-embedded pair. For sufficiently small , let be any one of the mutually isotopic ribbon-embedded surfaces , where
Rudolph's characterization conjecture. A ribbon is quasipositive if and only if, for some , it is ambient isotopic to a subribbon of . This would characterize quasipositive ribbons through the standard complex plane-curve surfaces ; the source presents it as a conjectural generalization, and no resolution is supplied here.
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Lee Rudolph, “A characterization of quasipositive Seifert surfaces (Constructions of quasipositive knots and links, III)”, arXiv:math/0411320 (2004).
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