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Bounds for the Thurston-Bennequin number from Floer homology

Olga Plamenevskaya

math.SGarXiv:math/0311090

Abstract

Using a knot concordance invariant from the Heegaard Floer theory of Ozsvath and Szabo, we obtain new bounds for the Thurston-Bennequin and rotation numbers of Legendrian knots in S3. We also apply these bounds to calculate the knot concordance invariant for certain knots.

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