On the additivity of the Thurston--Bennequin invariant of Legendrian knots

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In this article, we consider the maximal value of the Thurston--Bennequin invariant of Legendrian knots which topologically represent a fixed knot type in the standard contact 3-space and we prove a formula of the value under the connected sum operation of knots.
7 pages and 6 figures

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Geometric Topology, 57R17, 57M25

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/61041

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https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0103023
 http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0103023

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