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Ribbon fibred knots, cobordism of surface diffeomorphisms, and pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

F. Bonahon
F. Bonahon
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Universit de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
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For a long time, the main activity in knot theory, we would even say the only one for the problems related to knot cobordism, has been focused onto the development and the analysis of various algebraic invariants. The present paper intends to illustrate some geometric techniques, and to advertise a recent theorem of Casson and Gordon (8) which provides a necessary condition for a fibred classical knot to be ribbon (see definition below) in terms of a cobordism property of its monodromy. We want to show how this last result, combined with some previous work of ours on the cobordism of surface diffeomorphisms (4) (see also (10)) and Thurston's theory of pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphisms (28), (12), can effectively be used to show that a knot is not ribbon.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 94 , Issue 2 , September 1983 , pp. 235 - 251
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1983

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