Simplified SFT moduli spaces for Legendrian links
Abstract
We study moduli spaces of holomorphic maps from Riemann surfaces to with boundaries on the Lagrangian cylinder over a Legendrian link . We allow our domains, , to have non-trivial topology in which case is the zero locus of an obstruction function , sending a moduli space of holomorphic maps in to . In general, is not combinatorially computable. However after a Legendrian isotopy, can be made left-right-simple, implying that any of index is a disk with one or two positive punctures for which is an embedding. Moreover, any of index is either a disk or an annulus with simply covered and without interior critical points. Therefore any SFT invariant of is combinatorially computable using only disks with positive punctures.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2104.00505,
title = {Simplified SFT moduli spaces for Legendrian links},
author = {Russell Avdek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.00505},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
42 pages. V4: Updates based on referee feedback