Positive links are strongly quasipositive
Positive links are strongly quasipositive
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正向链接是强准正向的
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1998
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L. Rudolph
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L. Rudolph
Let S(D) be the surface produced by applying Seifert’s algorithm to the oriented link diagram D. I prove that if D has no negative crossings then S(D) is a quasipositive Seifert surface, that is, S(D) embeds incompressibly on a fiber surface plumbed from positive Hopf annuli. This result, combined with the truth of the “local Thom Conjecture”, has various interesting consequences; for instance, it yields an easily-computed estimate for the slice euler characteristic of the link L(D) (where D is arbitrary) that extends and often improves the “slice– Bennequin inequality” for closed-braid diagrams; and it leads to yet another proof of the chirality of positive and almost positive knots. AMS Classification 57M25; 32S55, 14H99