Positive braids and concordance
Peter Feller1
1Université de Neuchâtel, Rue Emile-Argand 11, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Winter Braids Lecture Notes, Winter Braids XII, Tome 9 (2023), Exposé no. 2, 20 p.

These lecture notes discuss notions of positivity for braids and links, their relation to complex plane curves, and how they provide strong restrictions on concordance properties of knots; e.g., sliceness. The notes are based on a three-hour mini-course delivered at Winter Braids XII.

Publié le :
DOI : 10.5802/wbln.43
Classification : 57K10, 57K20
Keywords: Braids, braid positive, quasipositive, strongly quasipositive, slice knots, slice-Bennequin-inequality, local Thom conjecture

Peter Feller  1

1 Université de Neuchâtel, Rue Emile-Argand 11, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland 
Peter Feller. Positive braids and concordance. Winter Braids Lecture Notes, Winter Braids XII, Tome 9 (2023), Exposé no. 2, 20 p.. doi: 10.5802/wbln.43
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