Ribbon concordance and the minimality of tight fibered knots
Abstract
Agol proved that ribbon concordance forms a partial ordering on the set of knots in the 3-sphere. In this paper, we prove that all tight fibered knots are minimal in this partially ordered set. We also give the table of prime minimal knots up to 8-crossings except for 815.
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