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In this paper we study Legendrian knots in the knot types of satellite knots. In particular, we classify Legendrian Whitehead patterns and learn a great deal about Legendrian braided patterns. We also show how the classification of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-08-22 John Etnyre , Vera Vértesi

We characterize the (1, 1) knots in the three-sphere and lens spaces that admit non-trivial L-space surgeries. As a corollary, 1-bridge braids in these manifolds admit non- trivial L-space surgeries. We also recover a characterization of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Joshua Evan Greene , Sam Lewallen , Faramarz Vafaee

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 study the behavior of Legendrian and transverse knots under the operation of connected sums. As a consequence we show that there exist Legendrian knots that are not distinguished by any known invariant. Moreover, we classify Legendrian…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John B. Etnyre , Ko Honda

We establish a $d$-invariant surgery formula for $L$-space knots that provides an effective tool for studying surgeries between lens spaces. Using this formula, we classify distance one surgeries between lens spaces of the form $L(n,1)$.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Zhongtao Wu , Jingling Yang

It is proved in this note that the analogues of the Bennequin inequality which provide an upper bound for the Bennequin invariant of a Legendrian knot in the standard contact three dimensional space in terms of the lower degree in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Emmanuel Ferrand

The lens space $L_{p,q}$ is the orbit space of a $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$-action on the three sphere. We investigate polynomials of two complex variables that are invariant under this action, and thus define links in $L_{p,q}$. We study properties…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Eva Horvat

We prove some classification results for tight contact structure in the 3-space, -ball and -sphere that are invariant with respect to some arbitrary involution, that is conjugated to the standard rotation around the x-axis. Unlike the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Mirko Torresani

Grid diagrams encode useful geometric information about knots in S^3. In particular, they can be used to combinatorially define the knot Floer homology of a knot K in S^3, and they have a straightforward connection to Legendrian…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-04-21 Kenneth L. Baker , J. Elisenda Grigsby

We formulate conjectures generalizing some known results to the category of virtual Legendrian knots. This includes statements relating virtual Legendrian knots to ordinary Legendrian knots, non-existence of positive virtual Legendrian self…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Vladimir Chernov , Rustam Sadykov

Using computational techniques we tabulate prime knots up to five crossings in the solid torus and the infinite family of lens spaces $L(p,q)$. For these knots we calculate the second and third skein module and establish which prime knots…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Boštjan Gabrovšek

We prove that every Legendrian knot in the tight contact structure of the 3-sphere is determined by the contactomorphism type of its exterior. Moreover, by giving counterexamples we show this to be not true for Legendrian links in the tight…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Marc Kegel

In this paper we study some aspects of knots and links in lens spaces. Namely, if we consider lens spaces as quotient of the unit ball $B^{3}$ with suitable identification of boundary points, then we can project the links on the equatorial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-01 Alessia Cattabriga , Enrico Manfredi , Michele Mulazzani

This paper explores the relationship between the existence of an exact embedded Lagrangian filling for a Legendrian knot in the standard contact $\rr^3$ and the hierarchy of positive, strongly quasi-positive, and quasi-positive knots. On…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Kyle Hayden , Joshua M. Sabloff

We prove that if positive integer p-surgery along a knot K \subset S^3 produces an L-space and it bounds a sharp 4-manifold, then the knot genus obeys the bound 2g(K) -1 \leq p - \sqrt{3p+1}. Moreover, there exists an infinite family of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-01-09 Joshua Evan Greene

We compute the Chekanov-Eliashberg contact homology of what we call the Legendrian closure of a positive braid. We also construct an augmentation for each such link diagram. Then we apply the monodromy techniques established in an earlier…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tamás Kálmán

We study the unwrapped Fukaya category of Lagrangian branes ending on a Legendrian knot. Our knots live at contact infinity in the cotangent bundle of a surface, the Fukaya category of which is equivalent to the category of constructible…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Vivek Shende , David Treumann , Eric Zaslow

The aim of this paper is to realise the techniques of picture-valued invariants and invariants valued in free groups for long knots in the full torus. Such knots and links are of a particular interest because of their relation to Legendrian…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Sera Kim , Seongjeong Kim , Vassily Olegovich Manturov

Suppose $K$ is a knot in a 3-manifold $Y$, and that $Y$ admits a pair of distinct contact structures. Assume that $K$ has Legendrian representatives in each of these contact structures, such that the corresponding Thurston-Bennequin…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Shunyu Wan

We take advantage of the correspondence between fibered links, open book decompositions and contact structures on a closed connected 3-dimensional manifold to determine a mixed link diagram presentation for a particular fibered link $L$ in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-02-12 Enrico Manfredi , Alessio Savini