A New Way to Compute the Thurston-Bennequin Number
Hao Wu
math.GTarXiv:math/0312224
Abstract
We establish a relation between several easy-to-calculate numerical invariants of generic knots in H2 × S1, and use it to give a new method of computing the Thurston-Bennequin number of Legendrian knots in the tight contact R3.
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