On Transverse Knots and Branched Covers

DOI10.1093/imrn/rnn138zbMath1160.57004arXiv0712.1557OpenAlexW2026322759MaRDI QIDQ3613890

Keiko Kawamuro, Olga Plamenevskaya, Shelly L. Harvey

Publication date: 16 March 2009

Published in: International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1557

zbMATH Keywords

contact structurescyclic branched coverstransverse links

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

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