On the Thurston-Bennequin invariant of Legendrian knots and non exactness of Bennequin's inequality

DOI10.1007/s002220050245zbMath0902.57007OpenAlexW2075034989MaRDI QIDQ1266337

Yutaka Kanda

Publication date: 18 October 1998

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002220050245

zbMATH Keywords

Bennequin's inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

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