Conormal bundles, contact homology and knot invariants
Symplectic Geometry
2009-03-13 v3 Mathematical Physics
Geometric Topology
math.MP
Abstract
We summarize recent work on a combinatorial knot invariant called knot contact homology. We also discuss the origins of this invariant in symplectic topology, via holomorphic curves and a conormal bundle naturally associated to the knot.
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@article{arxiv.math/0412330,
title = {Conormal bundles, contact homology and knot invariants},
author = {Lenhard Ng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0412330},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
This is the version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs on 22 April 2006