The slice genus and the Thurston-Bennequin invariant of a knot

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-97-04258-5zbMath0882.57006MaRDI QIDQ4356716

Lee Rudolph

Publication date: 1 October 1997

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Thurston-Bennequin invariantSlice genusThom Conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in algebraic geometry (14H99)

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