Non-Orientable Lagrangian Cobordisms between Legendrian Knots
Abstract
In the symplectization of standard contact -space, , it is known that an orientable Lagrangian cobordism between a Legendrian knot and itself, also known as an orientable Lagrangian endocobordism for the Legendrian knot, must have genus . We show that any Legendrian knot has a non-orientable Lagrangian endocobordism, and that the crosscap genus of such a non-orientable Lagrangian endocobordism must be a positive multiple of . The more restrictive exact, non-orientable Lagrangian endocobordisms do not exist for any exactly fillable Legendrian knot but do exist for any stabilized Legendrian knot. Moreover, the relation defined by exact, non-orientable Lagrangian cobordism on the set of stabilized Legendrian knots is symmetric and defines an equivalence relation, a contrast to the non-symmetric relation defined by orientable Lagrangian cobordisms.
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@article{arxiv.1508.02609,
title = {Non-Orientable Lagrangian Cobordisms between Legendrian Knots},
author = {Orsola Capovilla-Searle and Lisa Traynor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02609},
year = {2016}
}
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23 pages, 18 figures