The Thurston-Bennequin number, Kauffman polynomial, and ruling invariants of a Legendrian link: The Fuchs conjecture and beyond

DOI10.1155/IMRN/2006/78591zbMATH Open1106.57012arXivmath/0511097OpenAlexW1982387515WikidataQ123152257 ScholiaQ123152257MaRDI QIDQ3413612FDOQ3413612

Dan Rutherford

Publication date: 13 December 2006

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the ungraded ruling invariants of a Legendrian link can be realized as certain coefficients of the Kauffman polynomial which are non-vanishing if and only if the upper bound for the Bennequin number given by the Kauffman polynomial is sharp. This resolves positively a conjecture of Fuchs. Using similar methods a result involving the upper bound given by the HOMFLY polynomial and 2-graded rulings is proved.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511097

zbMATH Keywords

HOMFLY polynomialalternating knotKauffman polynomialThurston-Bennequin numberLegendrian linkruling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential forms in global analysis (58A10)

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