ON THE THURSTON-BENNEQUIN INVARIANT OF LEGENDRIAN KNOTS AND NON EXACTNESS OF BENNEQUINS INEQUALITY

Authors
KANDA Y
Citation
Y. Kanda, ON THE THURSTON-BENNEQUIN INVARIANT OF LEGENDRIAN KNOTS AND NON EXACTNESS OF BENNEQUINS INEQUALITY, Inventiones Mathematicae, 133(2), 1998, pp. 227-242
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics,Mathematics
Journal title
Inventiones Mathematicae → ACNP
ISSN journal
00209910
Volume
133
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
227 - 242
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-9910(1998)133:2<227:OTTIOL>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
In this paper, we show that Bennequin's inequality is highly non exact with respect to Legendrian simple closed curves of certain topologica l types.