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math.GT2004
Stein fillable 3-manifolds admit positive open book decompositions along arbitrary links
Masaharu Ishikawa
It is known by A. Loi and R. Piergallini that a closed, oriented, smooth 3-manifold is Stein fillable if and only if it has a positive open book decomposition. In the present paper…
math.GT2002
Exceptional surgery and boundary slopes
Masaharu Ishikawa, Thomas W. Mattman, Koya Shimokawa
Let X be a norm curve in the SL(2,C)-character variety of a knot exterior M. Let t = || b || / || a || be the ratio of the Culler-Shalen norms of two distinct non-zero classes a, b…