ON ARC INDEX AND MAXIMAL THURSTON–BENNEQUIN NUMBER

DOI10.1142/S0218216511009820zbMath1244.57022arXivmath/0612356MaRDI QIDQ3225637

Lenhard L. Ng

Publication date: 22 March 2012

Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612356

zbMATH Keywords

Legendrian knot; self-linking number; Khovanov homology; arc index; Thurston--Bennequin number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57R17: Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension

53D12: Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index

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