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An obstruction to decomposable exact Lagrangian fillings

Geometric Topology 2015-12-29 v1

Abstract

We study some properties of decomposable exact Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian links in R3\mathbb{R}^3 with the standard contact structure. In particular, for any decomposable exact Lagrangian filling LL of a Legendrian link KK, we may obtain a normal ruling of KK associated with LL. We prove that the associated normal rulings must have even number of clasps. As a result, we give a particular Legendrian (4,(2n+5))(4,-(2n+5))-torus knot, for each n0n \geq 0, which does not have a decomposable exact Lagrangian filling because it has only 1 normal ruling and this normal ruling has odd number of clasps.

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@article{arxiv.1512.08056,
  title  = {An obstruction to decomposable exact Lagrangian fillings},
  author = {Watchareepan Atiponrat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08056},
  year   = {2015}
}