Title of article :
Singularities cancellation on wave fronts
Author/Authors :
Ferrand، نويسنده , , Emmanuel، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
دوماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1999
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
Journal title :
Topology and its Applications