Transverse fibered knots and Taut Foliations
Rithwik Susheel Vidyarthi
Published: 2025/9/4
Abstract
We give a short alternative proof of Honda-Kazec-Matic's result, which states that a fibered knot with pseudo-Anosov monodromy and fractional Dehn twist coefficient $\geq1$ supports a contact structure that is a perturbation of a taut foliation.