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2006 Legendrian links and the spanning tree model for Khovanov homology
Hao Wu
Algebr. Geom. Topol. 6(4): 1745-1757 (2006). DOI: 10.2140/agt.2006.6.1745

Abstract

We use the spanning tree model for Khovanov homology to study Legendrian links. This leads to an alternative proof for Ng’s Khovanov bound for the Thurston–Bennequin number and to both a necessary and a sufficient condition for this bound to be sharp.

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Hao Wu. "Legendrian links and the spanning tree model for Khovanov homology." Algebr. Geom. Topol. 6 (4) 1745 - 1757, 2006. https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2006.6.1745

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Received: 31 May 2006; Revised: 25 August 2006; Accepted: 26 August 2006; Published: 2006
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

zbMATH: 1131.57018
MathSciNet: MR2263048
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/agt.2006.6.1745

Subjects:
Primary: 57M25
Secondary: 57R17

Keywords: Khovanov homology , Legendrian link , spanning tree , Tait graph

Rights: Copyright © 2006 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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