{ "id": "1712.09968", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-12-28T18:24:24.000Z", "updated": "2017-12-28T18:24:24.000Z", "title": "Transverse universal links", "authors": [ "Roger Casals", "John B. Etnyre" ], "comment": "10 pages, 8 figures", "categories": [ "math.GT", "math.SG" ], "abstract": "We show that there exists a transverse link in the standard contact structures on the 3-sphere such that all contact 3-manifolds are contact branched covers over this transverse link.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-12-28T18:24:24.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "transverse universal links", "transverse link", "standard contact structures", "contact branched covers" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }