2 papers
math.GT2005
A family of pseudo-Anosov braids with small dilatation
Eriko Hironaka, Eiko Kin
This paper concerns a family of pseudo-Anosov braids with dilatations arbitrarily close to one. The associated graph maps and train tracks have stable "star-like" shapes, and the c…
math.GT2003
Flowlines transverse to fibred knots and links
R. Ghrist, E. Kin
We consider vector fields on knot/link complements in which are transverse to the fibres of a fibration of the complement over a circle. We prove that a large class of fibred…