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Graduate Student Geometry-Topology Seminar

Wednesday, November 9, 2005 - 11:00am

Elena Bogdan

UPenn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

Using an estimate on the Thurston-Bennequin invariant of a Legendrian link in terms of the Kauffman polynomial we'll show that links of topological unknots (e.g. Borromean rings or the Whitehead link) may not be represented by Legendrian links of Legendrian unknots.