A New Way to Compute the Thurston-Bennequin Number

MaRDI QIDQ6473459zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hao Wu

Publication date 10 December 2003

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We establish a relation between several easy-to-calculate numerical invariants of generic knots in $mathbb{H}^{2}imes{S}^1$, and use it to give a new method of computing the Thurston-Bennequin number of Legendrian knots in the tight contact $mathbb{R}^3$.

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