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THE CONORMAL TORUS IS A COMPLETE KNOT INVARIANT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2019

VIVEK SHENDE*
Affiliation:
Departments of Mathematics, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720, USA; [email protected]

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.

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