locally unknotted manifold

  • 1Contact geometry — Contact form redirects here. For a web email form, see Form (web)#Form to email scripts. The standard contact structure on R3. Each point in R3 has a plane associated to it by the contact structure, in this case as the kernel of the one form dz − …

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  • 2Alexander polynomial — In mathematics, the Alexander polynomial is a knot invariant which assigns a polynomial with integer coefficients to each knot type. James Waddell Alexander II discovered this, the first knot polynomial, in 1923. In 1969, John Conway showed a… …

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