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An infinite family of Legendrian torus knots distinguished by cube number

Geometric Topology 2010-12-22 v1

Abstract

For a knot KK the cube number is a knot invariant defined to be the smallest nn for which there is a cube diagram of size nn for KK. There is also a Legendrian version of this invariant called the \emph{Legendrian cube number}. We will show that the Legendrian cube number distinguishes the Legendrian left hand torus knots with maximal Thurston-Bennequin number and maximal rotation number from the Legendrian left hand torus knots with maximal Thurston-Bennequin number and minimal rotation number.

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@article{arxiv.1012.4482,
  title  = {An infinite family of Legendrian torus knots distinguished by cube number},
  author = {Ben McCarty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.4482},
  year   = {2010}
}

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