On the monodromy of Milnor open books
TURKISH JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, vol.42, pp.1005-1017, 2018 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus, TRDizin)
- 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.