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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