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Hopf plumbing, arborescent Seifert surfaces, baskets, espaliers, and homogeneous braids
Lee Rudolph
Four constructions of Seifert surfaces - Hopf plumbing, arborescent plumbing, basketry, and T-bandword handle decomposition - are described, and some interrelationships found, e.g.…
math.GT1998
Positive links are strongly quasipositive
Lee Rudolph
Let S(D) be the surface produced by applying Seifert's algorithm to the oriented link diagram D. I prove that if D has no negative crossings then S(D) is a quasipositive Seifert su…