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Strongly quasipositive links are concordant to infinitely many strongly quasipositive links
Published 12 Oct 2022 in math.GT | (2210.06612v1)
Abstract: We show that every strongly quasipositive link other than an unlink is smoothly concordant to infinitely many (pairwise non-isotopic) strongly quasipositive links. In contrast to our result, it was conjectured by Baker that smoothly concordant strongly quasipositive fibered knots are isotopic. Our construction uses a satellite operation whose companion is a slice knot with maximal Thurston-Bennequin number -1.
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