2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/159875We determine the relationship between the contact structure induced by a fibered knot, K, in the three-sphere and the contact structures induced by its various cables. Understanding this relationship allows us to classify fibered cable knots which bound a properly embedded complex curve in the four-ball satisfying a genus constraint. This generalizes the well-known classification of links of plane curve singularities.11 pages, 1 figure. This paper will appear in the Proceedings of the 2007 Gokova Geometry and Topology conferenceGeometric TopologySymplectic Geometry57M25; 57M25; 53D10Some remarks on cabling, contact structures, and complex curvestext