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For any Legendrian link in $\displaystyle \mathbb{R}^{3}$ given by the rainbow closure of a positive braid word, we develop an explicit and computable description of a Legendrian isotopy invariant associated with it, namely the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Ángel Rodríguez--López

In this article, we introduce rack invariants of oriented Legendrian knots in the 3-dimensional Euclidean space endowed with the standard contact structure, which we call Legendrian racks. These invariants form a generalization of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Dheeraj Kulkarni , T. V. H. Prathamesh

In this note, we first classify all topological torus knots lying on the Heegaard torus in lens spaces, and then we study Legendrian representatives of these knots. We classify oriented positive Legendrian torus knots in the universally…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-02 Sinem Onaran

We study holomorphic Legendrian curves in the standard complex contact structure on the projectivised cotangent bundle $X=\mathbb P(T^*Z)$ of a complex manifold $Z$ of dimension at least $2$. We provide a detailed analysis of Legendrian…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Franc Forstneric , Finnur Larusson

Let $\{\Lambda^\infty_t\}$ be an isotopy of Legendrians (possibly singular) in a unit cosphere bundle $S^*M$. Let $Sh(M, \Lambda^\infty_t)$ be the differential graded (dg) derived category of constructible sheaves on $M$ with singular…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Peng Zhou

Let L be a Legendrian knot in R^3 with the standard contact structure. In [10], a map was constructed from equivalence classes of Morse complex sequences for L, which are combinatorial objects motivated by generating families, to homotopy…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Michael B. Henry , Dan Rutherford

We show that there is no positive loop inside the component of a fiber in the space of Legendrian embeddings in the contact manifold $ST^*M$, provided that the universal cover of $M$ is $\RM^n$. We consider some related results in the space…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-05-02 Vincent Colin , Emmanuel Ferrand , Petya Pushkar

We consider a generalization of Calabi-Yau structures in the context of $\alpha$-Sasakian manifolds. We study deformations of a special class of Legendrian submanifolds and classify invariant contact Calabi-Yau structures on 5-dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-26 Adriano Tomassini , Luigi Vezzoni

The set N of all null geodesics of a globally hyperbolic (d+1)-dimensional spacetime (M,g) is naturally a smooth (2d-1)-dimensional contact manifold. The sky of an event is the subset of N defined by all null geodesics through that event,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-15 Jose Natario , Paul Tod

For any compact connected submanifold $K$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$, let $\Lambda_K$ denote its unit conormal bundle, which is a Legendrian submanifold of the unit cotangent bundle of $\mathbb{R}^n$. In this paper, we give examples of pairs…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Yukihiro Okamoto

We construct a combinatorial invariant of Legendrian knots in standard contact three-space. This invariant, which encodes rational relative Symplectic Field Theory and extends contact homology, counts holomorphic disks with an arbitrary…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Lenhard Ng

We give a construction of embedded contact homology (ECH) for a contact $3$-manifold $Y$ with convex sutured boundary and a pair of Legendrians $\Lambda_+$ and $\Lambda_-$ contained in $\partial Y$ satisfying an exactness condition. The…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-16 Julian Chaidez , Oliver Edtmair , Luya Wang , Yuan Yao , Ziwen Zhao

We classify Legendrian realisations, up to coarse equivalence, of the Hopf link in the lens spaces L(p,1) with any contact structure.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Rima Chatterjee , Hansjörg Geiges , Sinem Onaran

We study a cone structure ${\mathcal C} \subset {\mathbb P} D$ on a holomorphic contact manifold $(M, D \subset T_M)$ such that each fiber ${\mathcal C}_x \subset {\mathbb P} D_x$ is isomorphic to a Legendrian submanifold of fixed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Jun-Muk Hwang

For a complex semi-simple Lie algebra, every nilpotent orbit in its projectivization comes with a complex contact structure. For each nilpotent orbit, we classify projective Legendrian subvarieties that are homogeneous under the actions of…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Minseong Kwon

We define a family of symplectic invariants which obstruct exact symplectic embeddings between Liouville manifolds, using the general formalism of linearized contact homology and its L-infinity structure. As our primary application, we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Sheel Ganatra , Kyler Siegel

Let f, g be two homotopic smooth embeddings of a closed surface in a closed oriented 5-dimensional manifold. We show that if f admits a common algebraic dual 3-sphere, or if the fundamental group of the ambient space is trivial, then f and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Ruoyu Qiao

We present examples of Legendrian knots in $\mathbb{R}^3$ that have linearized Legendrian contact homology over $\mathbb{Z}$ containing torsion. As a consequence, we show that there exist augmentations of Legendrian knots over $\mathbb{Z}$…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Robert Lipshitz , Lenhard Ng

Let $(M^5,\alpha,g_\alpha,J)$ be a 5-dimensional Sasakian Einstein manifold with contact 1-form $\alpha$, associated metric $g_\alpha$ and almost complex structure $J$ and $L$ a contact stationary Legendrian surface in $M^5$. We will prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Yong Luo

We prove that every closed, connected contact 3-manifold can be obtained from the 3-sphere with its standard contact structure by contact surgery of coefficient plus or minus 1 along a Legendrian link. As a corollary, we derive a result of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-07 Fan Ding , Hansjörg Geiges