Non-looseness of non-loose knots
Symplectic Geometry
2015-05-27 v1 Geometric Topology
Abstract
A Legendrian or transverse knot in an overtwisted contact 3-manifold is non-loose if its complement is tight and loose if its complement is overtwisted. We define three measures of the extent of non-looseness of a non-loose knot and show they are distinct.
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@article{arxiv.1312.5721,
title = {Non-looseness of non-loose knots},
author = {Kenneth L. Baker and Sinem Onaran},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.5721},
year = {2015}
}
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24 pages, 10 figures