Estimates for the Bennequin number of Legendrian links from state models for knot polynomials

Mathematical Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 143-156

  Tabachnikov, Serge ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR MATHEMATIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 0031286863     PISSN: 10732780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/MRL.1997.v4.n1.a13     Document Type: Article

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