Exact Lagrangian fillability of 3-braid closures
Symplectic Geometry
2026-01-19 v2
Abstract
We determine when a Legendrian quasipositive 3-braid closure in standard contact admits an orientable or non-orientable exact Lagrangian filling. Our main result provides evidence for the orientable fillability conjecture of Hayden and Sabloff, showing that a 3-braid closure is orientably exact Lagrangian fillable if and only if it is quasipositive and the HOMFLY bound on its maximum Thurston-Bennequin number is sharp. Of possible independent interest, we construct explicit Legendrian representatives of quasipositive 3-braid closures with maximum Thurston-Bennequin number.
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@article{arxiv.2507.16747,
title = {Exact Lagrangian fillability of 3-braid closures},
author = {James Hughes and Jiajie Ma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.16747},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
20 pages, 21 figures. Accepted for publication in Bulletin of the LMS