Ribbon concordance and fibered predecessors, II: the general case
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| author | Baldwin, John A. Hanselman, Jonathan Sivek, Steven |
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| contents | The first and third authors recently proved that for each knot $K\subset S^3$ there are only finitely many hyperbolic fibered knots which are ribbon concordant to $K$. In this paper, we remove the hyperbolic constraint, proving that every knot in $S^3$ has only finitely many fibered predecessors under ribbon concordance. The key new input is an inequality relating the knot Floer homology of a generalized satellite knot with that of its companion, proved via the immersed curves formulation of bordered Heegaard Floer homology, which should be of independent interest. Our work, together with results of Kojima--McShane, also leads to an explicit upper bound on the Gromov norm of the complement of any fibered predecessor of a knot $K \subset S^3$, in terms of the arc index and genus of $K$. |
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| spellingShingle | Ribbon concordance and fibered predecessors, II: the general case Baldwin, John A. Hanselman, Jonathan Sivek, Steven Geometric Topology The first and third authors recently proved that for each knot $K\subset S^3$ there are only finitely many hyperbolic fibered knots which are ribbon concordant to $K$. In this paper, we remove the hyperbolic constraint, proving that every knot in $S^3$ has only finitely many fibered predecessors under ribbon concordance. The key new input is an inequality relating the knot Floer homology of a generalized satellite knot with that of its companion, proved via the immersed curves formulation of bordered Heegaard Floer homology, which should be of independent interest. Our work, together with results of Kojima--McShane, also leads to an explicit upper bound on the Gromov norm of the complement of any fibered predecessor of a knot $K \subset S^3$, in terms of the arc index and genus of $K$. |
| title | Ribbon concordance and fibered predecessors, II: the general case |
| topic | Geometric Topology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21109 |