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The research reveals only finitely many hyperbolic fibered knots can be ribbon concordant to any knot, implying limits on predecessors.
Given any knot K in the 3-sphere, we prove that there are only finitely many hyperbolic fibered knots which are ribbon concordant to K. It follows that every fibered knot in the 3-sphere has only finitely many hyperbolic predecessors under ribbon concordance. Our proof combines results about maps on Floer homology induced by ribbon cobordisms with a relationship between the knot Floer homology of a fibered knot and fixed points of its monodromy. We then use the same techniques in combination with results of Cornish and Kojima-McShane to prove an inequality relating the volumes of ribbon concordant hyperbolic fibered knots.
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