GÖKOVA GEOMETRY / TOPOLOGY PROCEEDINGS

Published in Proceedings of Gökova Geometry-Topology Conference 2007
Title Some remarks on cabling, contact structures, and complex curves
Author Matthew Hedden
Abstract
We determine the relationship between the contact structure induced by a fibered knot, K ⊂ S3, and the contact structures induced by its various cables. Understanding this relationship allows us to classify fibered cable knots which bound a properly embedded complex curve in the four-ball satisfying a genus constraint. This generalizes the well-known classification of links of plane curve singularities.
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