On the Slicing Genus of Legendrian Knots

2005/05/12 by Hao Wu, Wu, Hao
Mathematics · #53D10 #57M50 #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Symplectic Geometry (math.SG) #math.GT #math.SG #msc:53D10 #msc:57M50

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0505279

9 pages, 2 figures

arxiv created 2007/02/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We apply Heegaard-Floer homology theory to establish generalized slicing Bennequin inequalities closely related to a recent result of T. Mrowka and Y. Rollin proved using Seiberg-Witten monopoles.

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