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The conormal lift of a link $K$ in $\R^3$ is a Legendrian submanifold $\Lambda_K$ in the unit cotangent bundle $U^* \R^3$ of $\R^3$ with contact structure equal to the kernel of the Liouville form. Knot contact homology, a topological link…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Tobias Ekholm , John Etnyre , Lenhard Ng , Michael Sullivan

For a system of second order differential equations we determine a nonlinear connection that is compatible with a given generalized Lagrange metric. Using this nonlinear connection, we can find the whole family of metric nonlinear…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-12 Ioan Bucataru

We define relative versions of the classical invariants of Legendrian and transverse knots in contact 3-manifolds for knots that are homologous to a fixed reference knot. We show these invariants are well-defined and give some basic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Georgi D. Gospodinov

We define an invariant of Legendrian links in the double-point enhanced grid homology of a link, and prove that it obstructs decomposable Lagrangian cobordisms in the symplectization of the standard contact structure on $\mathbb R^3$.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Ashton Lewis , Zachary Ojakli , Ina Petkova , Benjamin Shapiro

In this short note we observe that a result of Eliashberg and Polterovitch allows to use the doubly slice genus as an obstruction for a Legendrian knot to be a slice of a concordance from the trivial Legendrian knot with maximal…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Baptiste Chantraine , Noémie Legout

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 study the relation of an embedded Lagrangian cobordism between two closed, orientable Legendrian submanifolds of R^{2n+1}. More precisely, we investigate the behavior of the Thurston-Bennequin number and (linearized) Legendrian contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Roman Golovko

We show that the EH class and the LOSS invariant of Legendrian knots in contact 3-manifolds are functorial under regular Lagrangian concordances in Weinstein cobordisms. This gives computable obstructions to the existence of regular…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Marco Golla , András Juhász

For a given $g>0$, we construct a family of non-decomposable Lagrangian cobordisms of genus $g$ between (stabilized) Legendrian knots in the standard contact three-sphere. The main technique we use to obstruct decomposability is based on…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Roman Golovko , Daniel Komárek

For a Legendrian link $\Lambda \subset J^1M$ with $M = \mathbb{R}$ or $S^1$, immersed exact Lagrangian fillings $L \subset \mbox{Symp}(J^1M) \cong T^*(\mathbb{R}_{>0} \times M)$ of $\Lambda$ can be lifted to conical Legendrian fillings…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Yu Pan , Dan Rutherford

We prove that two Legendrian knots in a contact structure which is trivializable as a plane bundle are Legendrian isotopic provided that (1) they are isotopic as framed knots, (2) they have the same rotation number with respect to some…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Katarzyna Dymara

We study some properties of decomposable exact Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian links in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with the standard contact structure. In particular, for any decomposable exact Lagrangian filling $L$ of a Legendrian link $K$,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Watchareepan Atiponrat

We introduce and study strongly invertible Legendrian links in the standard contact three-dimensional space. We establish the equivariant analogs of basic results separately well-known for strongly invertible and Legendrian links, i.e. the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Carlo Collari , Paolo Lisca

We use an estimate on the Thurston--Bennequin invariant of a Legendrian link in terms of its Kauffman-polynomial to show that links of topological unknots, e.g. the Borromean rings or the Whithead link, may not be represented by Legendrian…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Klaus Mohnke

We construct an algorithm to decide whether two given Legendrian or transverse links are equivalent. In general, the complexity of the algorithm is too high for practical implementation. However, in many cases, when the symmetry group of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Ivan Dynnikov , Maxim Prasolov

In some previous papers, a Legendre duality between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics has been developed. The (\rho,\eta)-tangent application of the Legendre bundle morphism associated to a Lagrangian L or Hamiltonian H is presented.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-30 Constantin M. Arcuş

We resolve a question of Fuchs and Tabachnikov by showing that there is a Legendrian knot in standard contact three-space with zero Maslov number which is not Legendrian isotopic to its mirror. The proof uses the differential graded…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lenhard L. Ng

We prove an existence result for exact lagrangian cobordisms between closed legendrians.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Sauvik Mukherjee

We extend the definition of Lagrangian quantum homology to monotone Lagrangian cobordism and establish its general algebraic properties. In particular we develop a relative version of Lagrangian quantum homology associated to a cobordism…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Berit Singer