Strongly quasipositive links are concordant to infinitely many strongly quasipositive links
Abstract
We show that every non-trivial strongly quasipositive link is smoothly concordant to infinitely many pairwise non-isotopic strongly quasipositive links. In contrast to our result, Baker conjectured that smoothly concordant strongly quasipositive fibered knots are isotopic. Our construction uses a satellite operation whose companion is a slice knot with maximal Thurston-Bennequin number -1.
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