2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/167947We prove a finiteness property of the values of the skein polynomial of homogeneous knots which allows to establish large classes of such knots to have arbitrarily unsharp Bennequin inequality (for the Thurston-Bennequin invariant of any of their Legendrian embeddings in the standard contact structure of R^3), and a give a short proof that there are only finitely many among these knots that have given genus and given braid index.7 pagesGeometric TopologySymplectic Geometry57M25 (primary), 53C15, 58A30 (secondary)A property of the skein polynomial with an application to contact geometrytext