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Convex disks with Legendrian boundary in overtwisted contact 3-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2025-01-17 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We classify convex disks with a fixed characteristic foliation and Legendrian boundary, up to contact isotopy relative to the boundary, in every closed overtwisted contact 3-manifold. This classification covers cases where the neighborhood of such a disk is tight or where the boundary violates the Bennequin-Eliashberg inequality. We show that this classification coincides with the formal one, establishing an h-principle for these disks. As a corollary, we deduce that the space of Legendrian unknots that lie in some Darboux ball in a closed overtwisted contact 3-manifold satisfies the h-principle at the level of fundamental groups. Finally, we determine the contact mapping class group of the complement of each Legendrian unknot with non-positive tb invariant in an overtwisted 3-sphere.

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@article{arxiv.2501.09232,
  title  = {Convex disks with Legendrian boundary in overtwisted contact 3-manifolds},
  author = {Dahyana Farias and Eduardo Fernández and Francisco Presas and Guillermo Sánchez-Arellano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.09232},
  year   = {2025}
}

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27 pages, 8 figures. Comments are welcome