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Braid-positive Legendrian links

Symplectic Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Any link that is the closure of a positive braid has a natural Legendrian representative. These were introduced in an earlier paper, where their Chekanov--Eliashberg contact homology was also evaluated. In this paper we re-phrase and improve that computation using a matrix representation. In particular, we present a way of finding all augmentations of such Legendrians, construct an augmentation which is also a ruling, and find surprising links to LU-decompositions and Gr\"obner bases.

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@article{arxiv.math/0608457,
  title  = {Braid-positive Legendrian links},
  author = {Tamás Kálmán},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0608457},
  year   = {2007}
}

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24 pages