On the Thurston-Bennequin invariant of Legendrian knots and non exactness of Bennequin's inequality

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 227-242

  Kanda, Yutaka ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0032372845     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002220050245     Document Type: Article

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