The Legendrian satellite construction
Abstract
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We examine the Legendrian analogue of the topological satellite construction for knots, and deduce some results for specific Legendrian knots and links in standard contact three-space and the solid torus. In particular, we show that the Chekanov-Eliashberg contact homology invariants of Legendrian Whitehead doubles of stabilized knots contain no nonclassical information.
10 pages, 7 figures, AMS-LaTeX; this article is taken essentially verbatim from the author's Ph.D. thesis
10 pages, 7 figures, AMS-LaTeX; this article is taken essentially verbatim from the author's Ph.D. thesis