On the Slicing Genus of Legendrian Knots

Abstract

We apply Heegaard-Floer homology theory to establish generalized slicing Bennequin inequalities closely related to a recent result of T. Mrowka and Y. Rollin proved using Seiberg-Witten monopoles.

9 pages, 2 figures

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• Holomorphic triangles and invariants for smooth four-manifolds

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• Bennequin type inequalities in lens spaces
• An Ozsvath-Szabo Floer homology invariant of knots in a contact manifold