Authors and papers citing work by Lee Rudolph

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S. S. Abhyankar and A. Sathaye

[1996] Uniqueness of plane embeddings of special curves, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 1061-1069.

Selman Akbulut and Rostislav Matveyev

[1997] Exotic structures and adjunction inequality, Turkish Journal of Math. 21 (1997), 47-53

Selman Akbulut and Burak Ozbagci

[2001a] Lefschetz fibrations on compact Stein surfaces, Geometry and Topology 5 (2001), 319-334.

[2001b] On the topology of compact Stein surfaces, International Mathematics Research Notices 15 (2002), 769-782.

Gerald Allison, Avner Ash, and Eric Conrad

[1998] Galois representations, Hecke operators, and the mod-p cohomology of GL(3, Z) with twisted coefficients, Exp. Math. 7 (1998), 361-390.

Enrique Artal Bartolo

[1995] Une démonstration géométrique du théorème d'Abhyankar-Moh, J. reine angew. Math. 464 (1995), 97-108.

Avner Ash

[1980] Cohomology of congruence subgroups of SL(n, Z), Math. Ann. 249 (1980), 55-73.

[1983] On the top Betti number of subgroups of SL(n, Z), Math. Ann. 264 (1983), 277-281.

[1986] A note on minimal modular symbols, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 96 (1986), 394-396.

[1988] Non-minimal modular symbols for GL(n), Invent. Math. 91 (1988), 438-491.

[1989] Farrell cohomology of GL(n, Z), Israel J. Math. 67 (1989), 327-336.

[1994] Unstable cohomology of SL(n, O), J. Algebra 167 (1994), 330-342.

Avner Ash, Daniel Grayson, and Philip Green

[1984] Computations of cuspidal cohomology of congruence subgroups of SL(3; Z), J. Number Theory 19 (1984), 412-436.

Avner Ash, Paul Gunnells, and Mark McConnell

[2000] Cohomology of congruence subgroups of SL(4, Z), preprint (2000).

Ruth Auerbach

[1995] Loose-ended knots, preprint (1995).

Riccardo Benedetti and Masahiro Shiota

[1998] On real algebraic links in S³, Boll. Unione Mat. Italiana 3 (1998), 585-609.

D. Bennequin

[1983] Entrelacements et équations de Pfaff, Astérisque 107-108 (1983), 87-161.

[1990] Topologie Symplectique, convexité holomorphe et structures de contact [d'après Y. Eliashberg, D. Mc Duff et al.], Astérisque 189-90 (1990), 85-323.

J. Birman, P. Boldi, M. Rampichini, and S. Vigna

[2002] Towards an implementation of the B-H algorithm for recognizing the unknot, J. Knot Theory Ramif. 11 (2002), 601-646.

J. Birman, K. H. Ko, and S. J. Lee

[1998] A new approach to the word and conjugacy problems in the braid groups, Adv. Math. 139 (1998), 322-353.

J. S. Birman and W. W. Menasco

[1991] Studying links via closed braids (2): On a theorem of Bennequin, Topol. Appl. 40 (1991), 71-82.

[1992a] Studying links via closed braids (1): A finiteness theorem, Pac. J. Math. 154 (1992), 17-36.

[1992b] Studying links via closed braids (5): The unlink, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 329 (1992), 585-606.

[1993] Studying links via closed braids (3): Classifying links which are closed 3-braids, Pac. J. Math. 161 (1993), 25-113.

J. Birman and R. F. Williams

[1983] Knotted periodic orbits in dynamical systems. I. Lorenz's equations, Topology 22 (1983), 47-82.

Zarko Bizaca

[1995] An explicit family of exotic Casson handles, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 123 (1995) 1297-1302.

Zarko Bizaca and Robert Gompf

[1996] Elliptic surfaces and some simple exotic R⁴s, J. Differ. Geom. 43 (1996), 458-504.

Arnaud Bodin

[1999] Milnor fibration and fibered links at infinity, International Mathematics Research Notices 11 (1999), 615-622.

[2000] Fibres et entrelacs irréguliers à l'infini, doctoral thesis (2000).

[2002] Classification of polynomials from C² to C with one critical value, Mathematische Zeitschrift 242 (2002), 303-322.

Christian Bohr

[2001] On the kinkiness of closed braids, preprint (2001), to appear in J. Knot Theory Ramifications.

Michel Boileau and Laurence Fourrier

[1998] Knot theory and plane algebraic curves, Chaos Solitons Fractals 9 (1998), 779-792.

Michel Boileau and Stepan Yu. Orevkov

[2001] Quasipositivité d'une courbe analytique dans une boule pseudo-convexe, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 332 (2001), 825-830.

Michel Boileau and Claude Weber

[1983] Le problème de J. Milnor sur le nombre gordien des noeuds algébriques, Noeuds, Tresses, et Singularités (Plans-sur-Bex, 1982), 49-98, Monogr. Enseign. Math., 31, Enseignement Math., Geneva, 1983.

J. W. Bruce and T. J. Gaffney

[1982] Simple singularities of mappings C,0 -> C²,0, J. London Math. Soc. 26 (1982), 465-474.

Vera Carrara, J. Scott Carter, and Masahico Saito

[2001] Singularities of the projections of surfaces in 4-space, Pacific J. Math. 199 (2001), 21-40.

J. Scott Carter, Daniel Jelsovsky, Seiichi Kamada, Laurel Langford, and Masahico Saito

[1999] State-sum invariants of knotted curves and surfaces from quandle cohomology, Electron. Res. Announc. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 (1999), 146-156.

J. Scott Carter, Daniel Jelsovsky, Seiichi Kamada, and Masahico Saito

[2001] Computations of quandle cocycle invariants of knotted curves and surfaces, Adv. Math. 157 (2001), 36-94.

J. Scott Carter, Seiichi Kamada, and Masahico Saito

[2000] Alexander numbering of knotted surface diagrams, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), 3761-3771.

J. Scott Carter and Masahico Saito

[1996] Braids and movies, J. Knot Theory Ramifications 5 (1996), 589-608.

Pierette Cassou-Nogues

[1996] Sur la généralisation d'un théorème de Kouchnirenko, Compos. Math. 103 (1996), 95-121.

Miran Cerne

[2000] Analytic discs attached from the outside have knotted boundaries, Bull. London Math. Soc. 32 (2000), 339-344.

Hai-Chau Chang and Lih-Chung Wang

[1993] An intersection theoretical proof of the embedding line theorem, J. Algebra 161 (1993), 467-479.

Gautam Chinta, Paul Gunnells, and Robert Sczech

[2000] Computing special values of partial zeta functions, Algorithmic number theory (Leiden, 2000), Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci. 1838, Springer, Berlin, 2000.

Tim Cochran and Robert Gompf

[1988] Applications of Donaldson theorems to classical knot concordance, homology 3-spheres and Property-P, Topology 27 (1988), 495-512.

Daniel C. Cohen and Alexandru I. Suciu

[1997] The braid monodromy of plane algebraic curves and hyperplane arrangements, Comment. Math. Helv. 72 (1997) 285-315.

Oliver T. Dasbach and Brian S. Mangum

[2001] On McMullen's and other inequalities for the Thurston norm of link complements, Algebraic and Geometric Topology 1 (2001), 321-347.

David Derbes

[2001] Reinventing the wheel: Hodographic solutions to the Kepler problems, Am. J. Physics 69 (2001), 481-489.

Alexandru Dimca

[1998] Monodromy at infinity for polynomials in two variables, J. Algebraic Geom. 7 (1998), 771-779.

Simon K. Donaldson

[1988] Complex curves and surgery, Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. No. 68 (1988), 91-97.

Nguyen Viet Dung

[1999] Braid monodromy of complex line arrangements, Kodai Math. J. 22 (1999), 46-55.

Nguyen Viet Dung and Hà Huy Vui

[1995] The fundamental group of complex hyperplanes arrangements, Acta Math. Vietnam. 20 (1995), 31-41.

John B. Etnyre

[1998] Symplectic convexity in low-dimensional topology, Topol. Appl. 88 (1998), 3-25.

[1999] Transversal torus knots, Geometry and Topology 3 (1998), 253-268.

[2000] Tight contact structures on lens spaces, Commun. Contemp. Math. 2 (2000), 559-577; corrigendum.

John B. Etnyre and Robert Ghrist

[2002] Tight contact structures and Anosov flows, to appear in Topology and its Applications (2002).

John B. Etnyre and Ko Honda

[2000] Knots and contact geometry I: Torus knots and the figure eight knot, to appear in Journal of Symp. Geom.

[2001] On the non-existence of tight contact structures, Annals of Math. 153 (2001), 749-766.

John B. Etnyre and Lenhard L. Ng

[2002] Problems in low-dimensional contact topology, preprint (submitted to proceedings of the 2001 Georgia International Topology Conference).

John B. Etnyre, Lenhard L. Ng, and Joshua M. Sabloff

[2001] Invariants of Legendrian knots and coherent orientations, AIM preprint (2001).

Emmanuel Ferrand

[1999] On Legendre cobordisms, Differential and symplectic topology of knots and curves, ed. S. Tabachnikov, Advances in the Mathematical Sciences 42 (1999), 23-35.

[2002] On Legendrian knots and polynomial invariants, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1169-1176.

Thomas Fiedler

[1989] Complex-plane curves in the ball, Invent. Math. 95 (1989), 479-506.

[1991a] On the degree of the Jones polynomial, Topology 30 (1991), 1-8.

[1991b] Algebraic links and the Hopf fibration, Topology 30 (1991), 259-265.

[1993] A small state sum for knots, Topology 32 (1993), 281-294.

Laurence Fourrier

[1994] Topological classification at infinity of polynomials of 2 complex variables, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 318 (1994), 461-466.

[1996] Topological types of polynomials of two complex variables at infinity, Ann. Inst. Fourier 46 (1996), 645-687.

John Franks and R. F. Williams

[1987] Braids and the Jones polynomial, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 303 (1987), 97-108.

Dmitry Fuchs and Serge Tabachnikov

[1997] Invariants of Legendrian and transverse knots in the standard contact space, Topology 36 (1997), 1025-1053.

Martin Gardner

[1997] Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and other Mathematical Mystifications, Springer Verlag, 1997.

Bert van Geemen, Wilberd van der Kallen, Jaap Top, and Alain Verberkmoes

[1997] Hecke eigenforms in the cohomology of congruence subgroups of SL(3,Z), Experimental Mathematics 6 (1997), 163-174.

Bert van Geemen and Jaap Top

[2000] Modular forms for GL(3) and Galois representations, Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 1838 (2000), 333-346.

Dorian Goldfeld and Paul Gunnells

[2000] Eisenstein series twisted by modular symbols for the group SL(n), Math. Research Letters 7 (2000), 747-756.

Robert Gompf

[1998] Handlebody construction of Stein surfaces, Ann. Math. 148 (1998), 619-693.

Cameron McA. Gordon

[1981] Ribbon concordance of knots in the 3-sphere, Math. Ann. 257 (1981), 157-180.

Victor Goryunov

[2001] Plane curves, wavefronts and Legendrian knots, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London 359 (2001), 1497-1510.

Paul Gunnells

[1999] Modular symbols for Q-rank one groups and Voronoi reduction, J. Number Theory 75 (1999) 198-219.

[2000a] Computing Hecke eigenvalues below the cohomological dimension, Experimental Mathematics 9 (2000), 351-367.

[2000b] Modular symbols and Hecke operators, Lectures Notes in Computer Science 1838 (2000), 347-357.

[2000c] Finiteness of minimal modular symbols for SL(n), J. Number Theory 82 (2000), 134-139.

[2000d] Symplectic modular symbols, Duke Math. J. 102 (2000), 329-350.

Paul Gunnells and Mark McConnell

[1998] Hecke operators and Q-groups associated to self-adjoint homogeneous cones, preprint (1998).

R. V. Gurjar and M. Miyanishi

[1996] On contractible curves in the complex affine plane, Tohoku Math. J. 48 (1996), 459-469.

Janusz Gwozdziewicz and Arkadiusz Ploski

[2000] Formulae for the singularities at infinity of plane algebraic curves, IMUJ preprint (2000).

John Harer

[1978] On handlebody structures for hypersurfaces in C³ and CP³, Math. Ann. 238 (1978), 51-58.

John Harer, Arnold Kas, and Robion Kirby

[1986] Handlebody decompositions of complex surfaces, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1986), no. 350, iv+102 pp.

Mikami Hirasawa

[2001] Visualization of A'Campo's fibered links and unknotting operations, Topology App. 121 (2002), 287-304.

Mikami Hirasawa and Alexander Stoimenow

[2002] Examples of 4-braids without Bennequin surfaces, preprint (2002).

Masaharu Ishikawa

[2001a] The Z₂-coefficient Kauffman state model on divides, preprint (2001).

[2001b] Links of plane curves, fiberedness, quasipositivity and Jones polynomials, doctoral thesis (2001).

V. F. R. Jones

[1987] Hecke algebra representations of braid groups and link polynomials, Annals Math. 126 (1987), 335-388.

Shulim Kaliman

[1993] On the Jacobian conjecture, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 117 (1993), 45-51.

Seiichi Kamada

[1994a] A characterization of groups of closed orientable surfaces in 4-space, Topology 33 (1994), 113-122.

[1994b] Alexander and Markov theorems in dimension-4, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (1994), 64-67.

[1996a] On braid monodromies of non-simple braided surfaces, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 120 (1996), 237-245.

[1996b] An observation of surface braids via chart description, J. Knot Theor. Ramif. 5 (1996), 517-529.

[1996c] Crossing changes for singular 2-dimensional braids without branch points, Kobe J. Math. 13 (1996), 177-182.

[1998] Standard forms of 3-braid 2-knots and their Alexander polynomials, Mich. Math. J. 45 (1998), 189-205.

[1999] Unknotting immersed surface-links and singular 2-dimensional braids by 1-handle surgeries, Osaka J. Math. 36 (1999), 33-49.

[2002] Braid and Knot Theory in Dimension Four (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 95), American Mathematical Society (Providence), 2002.

M. C. Kang

[1991] On Abhyankar-Moh's epimorphism theorem, Am. J. Math. 113 (1991), 399-421.

Tomomi Kawamura

[1998] The unknotting numbers of 10₁₃₉ and 10₁₅₂ are 4, Osaka J. Math. 35 (1998), 539-546.

[2000a] Lower bounds for the unknotting numbers of the knots obtained from certain links, Knots in Hellas '98 : Proceedings of the International Conference on Knot Theory and Its Ramifications, World Sci. Publ., Singapore (2000), 203-207.

[2000b] Relations among the lowest degree of the Jones polynomial and geometric invariants for a closed positive braid, Comment. Math. Helv. 77 (2002), 125-132.

[2001a] On unknotting numbers and four-dimensional clasp numbers of links, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 243-252.

[2001b] Quasipositivity of links of divides and free divides, preprint (March 2001, under the title Links of divides are quasipositive; revised August 2001), to appear in Topology and Its Applications.

[2002] Four-dimensional invariants of links and the adjunction formula, J. Knot Theory Ramif. 11, Special Issue: Knots 2000 Korea, Volume 1 (2002), 323-340.

Robion Kirby

[1997] Problems in low-dimensional topology, Geometric topology (Athens, GA, 1993), AMS/IP Stud. Adv. Math., vol. 2.2., Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1997, pp. 35-473.

K. H. Ko and S. J. Lee

[1997] Genera of some closed 4-braids, Topol. Appl. 78 (1997), 61-77.

Dieter Kotschick and Gordana Matic

[1995] Embedded surfaces in 4-manifolds, branched covers, and SO(3)-invariants, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 117 (1995), 275-286.

Hanspeter Kraft

[1996] Challenging problems on affine n-space (Seminaire Bourbaki, Juin 1995, 47ème année, 1994/95, Exp. no. 802), Astérisque 237 (1996), 295-317.

Peter Kronheimer and Tomasz Mrowka

[1993] Gauge theory for embedded surfaces (1), Topology 32 (1993), 773-826

Nathaniel Kuhn

[1984] A conjectural inequality on the slice genus of links, Ph. D. thesis, Princeton University (1984).

Ravindra S. Kulkarni and John W. Wood

[1980] Topology of nonsingular complex hypersurfaces, Adv. in Math. 35 (1980), 239-263.

Ronnie Lee and Dariusz Wilczynski

[1997] Representing homology classes by locally flat surfaces of minimum genus, Am. J. Math. 119 (1997), 1119-1137.

Anatoly Libgober

[1987] Fundamental groups of the complements to plane singular curves, Algebraic geometry, Bowdoin, 1985 (Brunswick, Maine, 1985), Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., 46, Part 2, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1987, 29-45.

[1993] Topological invariants of affine hypersurfaces--connectivity, ends, and signature, Duke Math. J. 70 (1993), 207-227.

R. A. Litherland

[1979] Signatures of iterated torus knots, Topology of low-dimensional manifolds, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 722 (1979), 71-84.

Charles Livingston and Paul Melvin

[1983] Algebraic knots are algebraically dependent, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 87 (1983), 179-180.

Andrea Loi and Riccardo Piergallini

[2001] Compact Stein surfaces with boundary as branched covers of B⁴, Invent. Math. 143 (2001), 325-348.

Richard Mandelbaum

[1979] On the topology of elliptic surfaces, Studies in algebraic topology, Adv. in Math. Suppl. Stud. 5 (1979), 143-166.

[1980a] Four-dimensional topology: an introduction, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 1-159.

[1980b] Special handlebody decompositions of simply-connected algebraic surfaces, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 80 (1980), 359-362.

W. W. Menasco

[1994] The Bennequin-Milnor unknotting conjectures, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 318 (1994), 831-836.

Klaus Mohnke

[2000] Legendrian links of topological unknots, in Proceedings of the Conference on Topology, Geometry and Algebra: Interactions and New Directions, Contemporary Mathematics 279 (2000), 209-211.

Hugh Morton

[1983] An irreducible 4-string braid with unknotted closure, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 93 (1983), 259-261.

[1986] Seifert circles and knot polynomials, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 99 (1986), 107-109.

Hugh Morton and Elisabeta Beltrami

[1998] Arc index and the Kauffman polynomial, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 123 (1998), 41-48.

Hugh Morton and Marta Rampichini

[1998] Mutual braiding and the band presentation of braid groups, Knots in Hellas 98, Proceedings of the International Conference on Knot Theory and its Ramifications, ed. C. Gordon et al., World Scientific (2000), 335-346.

Kunio Murasugi

[1989] On invariants of graphs with applications to knot-theory, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 314 (1989), 1-49.

Takuji Nakamura

[2000] Four-genus and unknotting number of positive knots and links, Osaka J. Math. 37 (2000), 441-451.

[2002] On canonical genus of fibered knot, J. Knot Theory Ramif. 11 (2002), 341-352.

András Némethi

[1991] Generalized local and global Sebastiani-Thom type theorems, Compositio Math. 80 (1991), 1-14.

András Némethi and Alexandru Zaharia

[1992] Milnor fibration at infinity, Indag. Math. 3 (1992), 323-335.

Walter Neumann

[1989] Complex algebraic plane curves via their links at infinity, Invent. Math. 98 (1989), 445-489.

[1999] Conway polynomial of a fibered solvable link, J. Knot Theor. Ramif. 8 (1999), 505-509.

Walter Neumann and Paul Norbury

[2000] Unfolding polynomial maps at infinity, Math. Annalen 318 (2000), 149-180.

[2001] The Orevkov invariant of an affine plane curve, preprint (2001).

Lenhard L. Ng

[2001a] Maximal Thurston-Bennequin number of two-bridge links, Algebraic and Geometric Topology 1 (2001), 427-434.

[2001b] Invariants of Legendrian links, Ph. D. thesis, M.I.T. (2001).

I. J. Nutt

[1995] Braid index of satellite links, Ph. D. thesis, University of Liverpool (1995).

[1997] Arc index and the Kauffman polynomial, J. Knot Theory Ramif. 6 (1997), 61-77.

[1999] Embedding knots and links in an open book III. On the braid index of satellite links, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 126 (1999), 77-98.

Stepan Yu. Orevkov

[1988] The fundamental group of the complement of a plane algebraic curve, Math. USSR Sbornik 137 (1988), 267-277.

[1996] Rudolph diagrams and an analytic realization of the Vitushkin covering, Math. Notes 60 (1996), 153-164 (translation of Mat. Zemetki 60, 206-224).

[1998] Realizability of a braid monodromy by an algebraic function in a disk, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 326 (1998), 867-871.

[1999] Link theory and oval arrangements of real algebraic curves, Topology 38 (1999), 779-810.

[2000a] Strong positivity in right-invariant order on braid groups and quasipositivity, Math. Notes (translation of Mat. Zemetki) 68 (2000), 588-593.

[2000b] Markov moves for quasipositive braids, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 331 (2000), 557-562.

[2001] Classification of flexible M-curves of degree 8 up to isotopy, preprint (2001), to appear in Geometric and Functional Analysis.

R. D. Peters

[1991] True anomaly approximation for elliptic orbits, J. Guid. Control. Dynam. 5 (1991), 1069-1070.

Riccardo Piergallini and Daniele Zuddas

[2001] Braiding non-orientable surfaces in S⁴, preprint (2001).

Marta Rampichini

[1999] Exchangeable fibered links, Boll. Unione Mat. Ital. (1999), 53-56.

[2000] Fibred closed braids with disc-band fibre surfaces, preprint (2000).

[2001] Mutually braided links, films and exchangeability, J. Knot Theory Ramif. 10 (2001), 739-761.

Mark Reeder

[1990] Modular symbols and the Steinberg representation, Lect. Notes Math. 1447 (1990), 287-302.

[1991] The Steinberg module and the cohomology of arithmetic groups, J. Algebra 141 (1991) 287-315.

Robert Root-Bernstein

[1996] Do we have the structure of DNA right?- Aesthetic assumptions, visual conventions, and unsolved problems, Art Journal 55 (1996), 47-55.

C. G. Schmidt

[1993] Relative modular symbols and p-adic Rankin-Selberg convolutions, Invent. Math. 112 (1993), 31-76.

Robert Sczech

[1993] Eisenstein group cocycles for GL(N) and values of L-functions, Invent. Math. 113 (1993), 581-616.

Ferdinand J. Shore

[1989] Stellar aberration, invariant velocities, and Earth's hodograph, Am. J. Physics 57 (1989), 948-949.

Richard Skora

[1992] Closed braids in 3-manifolds, Math. Zeitung 211 (1992), 173-187.

John Christopher Sligar

[1990] On the minimal upsilon-degree of the generalized Jones polynomial, Ph. D. thesis, University of Georgia (1990).

Alexander Stoimenow

[1999a] Chord and Gauss diagrams in the theory of knots, preprint (1999).

[2000a] A property of the skein polynomial with an application to contact geometry, preprint (2000).

[2000b] The signature of 2-almost positive knots, J. Knot Theory Ramif. 9 (2000), 813-845

[2000c] Knots of genus two, preprint (1998, revised 2000).

[2001a] Gauss sums on almost positive knots, preprint (1997, revised 2001).

[2001b] Positive knots, closed braids and the Jones polynomial, preprint (1998, revised 2001).

[2001c] The skein polynomial of closed 3-braids, preprint (2001).

[2001d] Knots of genus one or on the number of alternating knots of given genus, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 2141-2156.

[2001e] Some examples related to 4-genera, unknotting numbers and knot polynomials, J. London Math. Soc. 63 (2001), 487-500.

[2002a] The granny and the square tangle and the unknotting number, Topology and its Applications 117 (2002), 59-75.

[2002b] On the coefficients of the link polynomials, preprint (2002).

[2002c] On polynomials of links with various positivities, preprint (2002).

[2002d] On the crossing number of positive knots and braids and braid index criteria of Jones and Morton-Williams-Frank, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. (2002), to appear.

P. A. Sundheim

[1993] The Alexander and Markov theorems via diagrams for links in 3-manifolds, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 337 (1993), 591-607.

Toshifumi Tanaka

[1998a] Four-genera of quasipositive knots, Topology Appl. 83 (1998), 187-192.

[1998b] Unknotting numbers of quasipositive knots, Topology Appl. 88 (1998), 239-246.

[1999a] Study on cobordism of quasipositive knots, Ph. D. thesis, Kyushu University, 1999.

[1999b] Maximal Bennequin numbers and Kauffman polynomials of positive links, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 3427-3432.

[2000] On invariants of Legendrian links, Proceedings of Knots 2000 (to appear, 2002).

Ichiro Torisu

[2001] On the additivity of the Thurston-Bennequin invariant of Legendrian knots, preprint (2001).

Pawel Traczyk

[1988] Non-trivial negative links have positive signature, Manuscripta Math. 61 (1988), 279-284.

Lisa Traynor

[1998] A Legendrian stratification of rational tangles, J. Knot Theory Ramif. 7 (1998), 659-700.

James van Buskirk

[1985] Positive knots have positive Conway polynomials, Knot theory and manifolds, Lect. Notes Math. 1144 (1985), 146-159.

Gretchen Wright

[2000] A foliated disk whose boundary is Morton's irreducible 4-braid, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 128 (2000), 95-101.

Daniele Zuddas

[2000] Trecce bidimensionali, Grad. thesis, University of Camerino-Italy 2000.