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THE CONORMAL TORUS IS A COMPLETE KNOT INVARIANT

Part of: Low-dimensional topology Homology and cohomology theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2019

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VIVEK SHENDE*
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Departments of Mathematics, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720, USA; vivek@math.berkeley.edu

Abstract

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We use microlocal sheaf theory to show that knots can only have Legendrian isotopic conormal tori if they themselves are isotopic or mirror images.

MSC classification

Primary: 57M25: Knots and links in $S^3$ 57M27: Invariants of knots and 3-manifolds 55N30: Sheaf cohomology
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Forum of Mathematics, Pi , Volume 7 , 2019 , e6
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