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2015 Nonlooseness of nonloose knots
Kenneth L Baker, None Onaran
Algebr. Geom. Topol. 15(2): 1031-1066 (2015). DOI: 10.2140/agt.2015.15.1031

Abstract

A Legendrian or transverse knot in an overtwisted contact 3–manifold is nonloose if its complement is tight and loose if its complement is overtwisted. We define three measures of the extent of nonlooseness of a nonloose knot and show they are distinct.

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Kenneth L Baker. None Onaran. "Nonlooseness of nonloose knots." Algebr. Geom. Topol. 15 (2) 1031 - 1066, 2015. https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2015.15.1031

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Received: 21 May 2014; Revised: 18 August 2014; Accepted: 21 August 2014; Published: 2015
First available in Project Euclid: 28 November 2017

zbMATH: 1318.53089
MathSciNet: MR3342684
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/agt.2015.15.1031

Subjects:
Primary: 53D10 , 57M27

Keywords: Legendrian knots , nonloose knots , overtwisted contact structure , transverse knots

Rights: Copyright © 2015 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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