{ "id": "0902.3715", "version": "v2", "published": "2009-02-21T04:15:26.000Z", "updated": "2011-01-11T21:04:48.000Z", "title": "Braiding Knots in Contact 3-Manifolds", "authors": [ "Elena Pavelescu" ], "comment": "11 pages, 7 figures", "doi": "10.2140/pjm.2011.253.475", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "We show that a transverse link in a contact structure supported by an open book decomposition can be transversely braided. We also generalize Markov's theorem on when the closures of two braids represent (transversely) isotopic links.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2011-01-11T21:04:48.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57M50" ], "keywords": [ "braiding knots", "open book decomposition", "transverse link", "generalize markovs theorem", "isotopic links" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 11, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2009arXiv0902.3715P" } } }