Classical invariants of Legendrian knots in the 3-dimensional torus
Geometric Topology
2015-02-27 v3
Abstract
All knots in possess Seifert surfaces, and so the classical Thurston-Bennequin and rotation (or Maslov) invariants for Legendrian knots in a contact structure on can be defined. The definitions extend easily to null-homologous knots in any -manifold endowed with a contact structure . We generalize the definition of Seifert surfaces and use them to define these invariants for all Legendrian knots, including those that are not null-homologous, in a contact structure on the -torus . We show how to compute the Thurston-Bennequin and rotation invariants in a tight oriented contact structure on using projections.
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@article{arxiv.1404.7732,
title = {Classical invariants of Legendrian knots in the 3-dimensional torus},
author = {Paul A. Schweitzer SJ and Fábio S. Souza},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.7732},
year = {2015}
}
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22 pages, 11 figures