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Legendrian links of topological unknots

Klaus Mohnke

math.GTarXiv:math/9810171

Abstract

We use an estimate on the Thurston--Bennequin invariant of a Legendrian link in terms of its Kauffman-polynomial to show that links of topological unknots, e.g. the Borromean rings or the Whithead link, may not be represented by Legendrian links of Legendrian unknots.

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