• Title of article

    Singularities cancellation on wave fronts

  • Author/Authors

    Ferrand، نويسنده , , Emmanuel، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    دوماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1999
  • Pages
    9
  • From page
    155
  • To page
    163
  • Abstract
    We show that any Legendre knot in the contact manifold of cooriented contact elements of a surface M is, up to stabilization, Legendre-isotopic to a Legendre knot whose projection on M (wave front) is an immersion, provided that it is Legendre-homotopic to such a knot. As a consequence, we obtain that each ambient isotopy class of knots contains Legendre representatives with immersed wave fronts. We also show that similar results do not hold in the context of the manifold of noncooriented contact elements.
  • Keywords
    Wave fronts , Legendrian knots , Contact topology
  • Journal title
    Topology and its Applications
  • Serial Year
    1999
  • Journal title
    Topology and its Applications
  • Record number

    1579423