Knot theory of holomorphic curves in Stein surfaces
Thesis advisor: John A. Baldwin === We study the relationship between knots in contact three-manifolds and complex curves in Stein surfaces. To do so, we extend the notion of quasipositivity from classical braids to links that are braided with respect to an open book decomposition of an arbitrary cl...
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Boston College
2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107925 |