Twist knots and thickenings
Abstract
We prove that any neighborhood N of a positive twist knot K_m, odd m greater than on equal to 3 with extremal Euler number can be thickened to a standard neighborhood of a maximal Thurston-Bennequin number Legendrian representative of K_m.
URI
http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/george_whitney_k_201208_phdhttp://hdl.handle.net/10724/28272