Bounds for the Thurston-Bennequin number from Floer homology
Symplectic Geometry
2014-10-01 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
Using a knot concordance invariant from the Heegaard Floer theory of Ozsvath and Szabo, we obtain new bounds for the Thurston-Bennequin and rotation numbers of Legendrian knots in S^3. We also apply these bounds to calculate the knot concordance invariant for certain knots.
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@article{arxiv.math/0311090,
title = {Bounds for the Thurston-Bennequin number from Floer homology},
author = {Olga Plamenevskaya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0311090},
year = {2014}
}
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Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol4/agt-4-20.abs.html