Minor theory for quasipositive surfaces
Abstract
The set of quasipositive surfaces is closed under incompressible inclusion. We prove that the induced order on fibre surfaces of positive braid links is almost a well-quasi-order. When restricting to quasipositive surfaces containing a fixed root of a full twist, we get an actual well-quasi-order.
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