A topological introduction to knot contact homology

Abstract

This is a survey of knot contact homology, with an emphasis on topological, algebraic, and combinatorial aspects.

38 pages, based on lectures at the Contact and Symplectic Topology Summer School in Budapest, July 2012; v2: fixed typos, updated references, version to be published

References in corpus (1)

• Super-A-polynomial for knots and BPS states

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