Legendrian Satellites and Decomposable Concordances
Symplectic Geometry
2017-10-04 v1 Geometric Topology
Abstract
We investigate the ramifications of the Legendrian satellite construction on the relation of Lagrangian cobordism between Legendrian knots. Under a simple hypothesis, we construct a Lagrangian concordance between two Legendrian satellites by stacking up a sequence of elementary cobordisms. This construction narrows the search for "non-decomposable" Lagrangian cobordisms and yields new families of decomposable Lagrangian slice knots. Finally, we show that the maximum Thurston-Bennequin number of a smoothly slice knot provides an obstruction to any Legendrian satellite of that knot being Lagrangian slice.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1710.00943,
title = {Legendrian Satellites and Decomposable Concordances},
author = {Yanhan Liu and Joshua M. Sabloff and Matthew Yacavone and Sipeng Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.00943},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
13 pages, 6 figures