English

Legendrian grid number one knots and augmentations of their differential algebras

Geometric Topology 2010-03-22 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

In this article we study the differential graded algebra (DGA) invariant associated to Legendrian knots in tight lens spaces. Given a grid number one diagram for a knot in L(p, q), we show how to construct a special Lagrangian diagram suitable for computing the DGA invariant for the Legendrian knot specified by the diagram. We then specialize to L(p, p - 1) and show that for two families of knots, the existence of an augmentation of the DGA depends solely on the value of p.

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@article{arxiv.1003.3685,
  title  = {Legendrian grid number one knots and augmentations of their differential algebras},
  author = {Joan E. Licata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.3685},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

21 pages, 13 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Heidelberg Knot Theory Semester