2010/02/28 by Christopher R. Cornwell
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Mathematics · #Computer science #Connective tissue disorders research #Corollary #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Inequality #Invariant (physics) #Lens (geology) #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Optics #Pure mathematics #Space (punctuation) #Through-the-lens metering #Type (biology) #math.GT #msc:57M27
paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/imrn/rnr096
21 pages, 13 figures; International Mathematics Research Notices 2011
openalex publication_date 2011/05/27 · arxiv created 2011/11/09 · arxiv updated 2011/11/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We give criteria for an invariant of lens space links to bound the maximal self-linking number in certain tight contact lens spaces. Our result generalizes that given by Ng [“A Skein approach to Bennequin type inequalities.” International Mathematics Research Notices 2008, no. 24 (2008): 18] for links in S3 with the standard tight contact structure. As a corollary we extend the Franks–Williams–Morton inequality to the setting of lens spaces.