Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Author(s): Tamás Kálmán
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 2969-2977.
MSC (2000): Primary 57M25; Secondary 53D12
Posted: April 7, 2008
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Abstract: The class of

adequate links contains both alternating and positive links. Generalizing results of Tanaka (for the positive case) and Ng (for the alternating case), we construct fronts of an arbitrary

adequate link

so that the diagram has a ruling; therefore its Thurston-Bennequin number is maximal among Legendrian representatives of

. We derive consequences for the Kauffman polynomial and Khovanov homology of

adequate links.

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Tamás Kálmán
Affiliation: Graduate School of Mathematics, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8914, Japan
Email: kalman@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09478-1
PII: S 0002-9939(08)09478-1
Received by editor(s): November 9, 2006
Posted: April 7, 2008
Communicated by: Daniel Ruberman
Copyright of article: Copyright 2008, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.

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