Legendrian knot

Legendrian knot

In mathematics, a Legendrian knot often refers to a smooth embedding of the circle into mathbb R^3, which is tangent to the standard contact structure on mathbb R^3. More generally, Legendrian knots refer to such maps into a contact manifold.

ee also

*transverse knot, knots transverse to a contact structure


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