Invariants of Legendrian knots in circle bundles
Abstract
Let E be a circle bundle over a Riemann surface that supports a contact structure transverse to the fibers. This paper presents a combinatorial definition of a differential graded algebra (DGA) that is an invariant of Legendrian knots in E. The invariant generalizes Chekanov's combinatorial DGA invariant of Legendrian knots in the standard contact 3-space using ideas from Eliashberg, Givental, and Hofer's contact homology. The main difficulty lies in dealing with what are ostensibly 1-parameter families of generators for the DGA; these are solved using ``Morse-Bott'' techniques. As an application, the invariant is used to distinguish two Legendrian knots that are smoothly isotopic, realize a non-trivial homology class, but are not Legendrian isotopic.
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@article{arxiv.math/0208214,
title = {Invariants of Legendrian knots in circle bundles},
author = {Joshua M. Sabloff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0208214},
year = {2007}
}
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49 pages, 39 figures