Invariants of Legendrian mirror torus knots
Speaker:
D. Fuchs, University of California, Davis
Date and Time:
Monday, March 26, 2001 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location:
The Fields Institute
Abstract:
Legendrian and transverse minor torus knots in the standard contact space has been recently clarified by Etnyre-Honda and Birman-Wrinkle. We can study their invariants (Bennequin numbers and Chekanov-Eliashberg invariants) to show that their possible values and behaviour contradict some natural conjectures and give rise to some others.