Topologically Trivial Legendrian Knots

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dc.creatorEliashberg, Y.
dc.creatorFraser, M.
dc.date2008-01-16
dc.date2008-11-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:18:12Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:18:12Z
dc.descriptionThe paper deals with topologically trivial Legendrian knots in tight and overtwisted contact 3-manifolds. The first part contains a thorough exposition of the proof of the classification of topologically trivial Legendrian knots (i.e. Legendrian knots bounding embedded 2-disks) in tight contact 3-manifolds. This part was essentially written more than 10 years ago, but only a short version, without the detailed proofs, was published (in CRM Proc. Lecture Notes, Vol. 15, 1998). That paper also briefly discussed the overtwisted case. The final part of the present paper contains a more systematic discussion of Legendrian knots in overtwisted contact manifolds, and in particular, gives the coarse classification (i.e. classification up to a global contactomorphism) of topologically trivial Legendrian knots in overtwisted contact S^3.
dc.descriptionVarious typographical errors corrected and introduction shortened
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2553
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2553
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/174111
dc.subjectGeometric Topology
dc.titleTopologically Trivial Legendrian Knots
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