Transverse knot
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In mathematics, a transverse knot is a smooth embedding of a circle into a three-dimensional contact manifold such that the tangent vector at every point of the knot is transverse to the contact plane at that point.
Any Legendrian knot can be C0-perturbed in a direction transverse to the contact planes to obtain a transverse knot. This yields a bijection between the set of isomorphism classes of transverse knots and the set of isomorphism classes of Legendrian knots modulo negative Legendrian stabilization.
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Geiges, Hansjörg (2008). An introduction to contact topology; Volume 109 of Cambridge studies in advanced mathematics. Cambridge University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-521-86585-2.
- J. Epstein, D. Fuchs, and M. Meyer, Chekanov–Eliashberg invariants and transverse approximations of Legendrian knots, Pacific J. Math. 201 (2001), no. 1, 89–106.
