{
  "id": "0709.2141",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2007-09-13T18:23:39.000Z",
  "updated": "2007-09-13T18:23:39.000Z",
  "title": "A skein approach to Bennequin type inequalities",
  "authors": [
    "Lenhard Ng"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages, many figures",
  "journal": "Int. Math. Res. Not. 2008, Art. ID rnn116, 18 pp.",
  "categories": [
    "math.GT",
    "math.SG"
  ],
  "abstract": "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.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2007-09-13T18:23:39.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "57M27",
      "57R17",
      "53D12"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "bennequin type inequalities",
      "skein approach",
      "legendrian knots",
      "simple unified proof",
      "sufficient conditions"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2007arXiv0709.2141N"
    }
  }
}