Remarks on Legendrian Self-Linking

DOI10.1063/1.5006069MaRDI QIDQ6260159arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Chris Beasley, Brendan McLellan, Ruoran Zhang

Publication date 20 March 2015

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5006069

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) Contact structures in 3 dimensions (57K33) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

arXiv classification

hep-thmath.GTmath.SG

Abstract: The Thurston-Bennequin invariant provides one notion of self-linking for any homologically-trivial Legendrian curve in a contact three-manifold. Here we discuss related analytic notions of self-linking for Legendrian knots in Euclidean space. Our definition is based upon a reformulation of the elementary Gauss linking integral and is motivated by ideas from supersymmetric gauge theory. We recover the Thurston-Bennequin invariant as a special case.

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