Maximal Thurston-Bennequin Number of Two-Bridge Links
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maximalthurston-bennequintwo-bridgenumberapplicationboundcomputecontact
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We compute the maximal Thurston-Bennequin number for a Legendrian two-bridge knot or oriented two-bridge link in standard contact R^3, by showing that the upper bound given by the Kauffman polynomial is sharp. As an application, we present a table of maximal Thurston-Bennequin numbers for prime knots with nine or fewer crossings.
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