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A skein approach to Bennequin type inequalities

Lenhard Ng

Published 2007-09-13Version 1

We give a simple unified proof for several disparate bounds on Thurston-Bennequin number for Legendrian knots and self-linking number for transverse knots in R^3, and provide a template for possible future bounds. As an application, we give sufficient conditions for some of these bounds to be sharp.

Comments: 15 pages, many figures
Journal: Int. Math. Res. Not. 2008, Art. ID rnn116, 18 pp.
Categories: math.GT, math.SG
Subjects: 57M27, 57R17, 53D12
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