Abstract
Knot contact homology is an ambient isotopy invariant of knots and links in [Formula: see text]. The purpose of this paper is to extend this definition to an ambient isotopy invariant of tangles and prove that gluing of tangles gives a gluing formula for knot contact homology. As a consequence of the gluing formula we obtain that the tangle contact homology detects triviality of tangles.
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