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Transverse Knots Distinguished by Knot Floer Homology

Geometric Topology 2010-03-15 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We exhibit pairs of transverse knots with the same self-linking number that are not transversely isotopic, using the recently defined knot Floer homology invariant for transverse knots and some algebraic refinements of it.

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@article{arxiv.math/0703446,
  title  = {Transverse Knots Distinguished by Knot Floer Homology},
  author = {Lenhard Ng and Peter Ozsvath and Dylan Thurston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0703446},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

Added explanations, corrected statement of Proposition 2