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
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