On the monodromy of Milnor open books

Altınok Bhupal S., Bhupal M. L.

TURKISH JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, vol.42, pp.1005-1017, 2018 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 42
  • Publication Date: 2018
  • Doi Number: 10.3906/mat-1706-41
  • Journal Name: TURKISH JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.1005-1017
  • Keywords: Canonical contact structures, surface singularities, Milnor open books, monodromy, SURFACE SINGULARITIES
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

We present some techniques that can be used to factorize the monodromy of certain Milnor open books. We also describe a class of Milnor open books for which we can explicitly express the monodromy as a product of Dehn twists.