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The contact homology of Legendrian knots with maximal Thurston–Bennequin invariant

2010/12/22 by Steven Sivek · 2 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.4310/jsg.2013.v11.n2.a2

published as J. Symplectic Geom. 11 (2013), no. 2, 167--178 · 11 pages, 3 figures

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Abstract

We show that there exists a Legendrian knot with maximal Thurston-Bennequin invariant whose contact homology is trivial. We also provide another Legendrian knot which has the same knot type and classical invariants but nonvanishing contact homology.

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