Computation of the Bennequin invariant of a Legendre curve from the geometry of its wave front

DOI10.1007/BF01077639MaRDI QIDQ757925zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. Tabachnikov

Publication date 1988

Published in Functional Analysis and Its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01077639

zbMATH Keywords

contact manifoldsBennequin invariantLegendre's curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99)

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