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The knot complement problem for Legendrian and transverse knots

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Speaker: 
Marc Kegel
Affiliation: 
University of Cologne
Date: 
Fri, 21/10/2016 - 14:15 - 14:45
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

The famous knot complement theorem by Gordon and Luecke states that two knots in the $3$-sphere are equivalent if and only if their complements are homeomorphic. In this talk I want to discuss the same question for Legendrian and transverse knots and links in contact $3$-manifolds. The main results are that Legendrian as well as transverse knots in the tight contact $3$-sphere are equivalent if and only if their exteriors are contactomorphic.

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