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We characterize which Legendrian $4$-plat knots in the standard contact $3$-space have exact orientable Lagrangian fillings. As a corollary, we show that the underlying smooth knot types of fillable Legendrian $4$-plats are positive.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Erin R. Lipman , Joshua M. Sabloff

We investigate when a Legendrian knot in standard contact $\mathbb{R}^3$ has a non-orientable exact Lagrangian filling. We prove analogs of several results in the orientable setting, develop new combinatorial obstructions to fillability,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Linyi Chen , Grant Crider-Phillips , Braeden Reinoso , Joshua M. Sabloff , Leyu Yau

In this article we define Lagrangian concordance of Legendrian knots, the analogue of smooth concordance of knots in the Legendrian category. In particular we study the relation of Lagrangian concordance under Legendrian isotopy. The focus…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Baptiste Chantraine

In the symplectization of standard contact $3$-space, $\mathbb R \times \mathbb R^3$, it is known that an orientable Lagrangian cobordism between a Legendrian knot and itself, also known as an orientable Lagrangian endocobordism for the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Orsola Capovilla-Searle , Lisa Traynor

We prove that any positive braid Legendrian link not isotopic to a standard finite type link admits infinitely many exact Lagrangian fillings.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Honghao Gao , Linhui Shen , Daping Weng

Positive loops of Legendrian embeddings are examined from the point of view of Floer homology of Lagrangian cobordisms. This leads to new obstructions to the existence of a positive loop containing a given Legendrian, expressed in terms of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-11 Baptiste Chantraine , Vincent Colin , Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell

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

In this paper, we prove that a link which has an almost positive diagram with a certain condition is Lagrangian fillable.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Keiji Tagami

To a Legendrian knot, one can associate an $\mathcal{A}_{\infty}$ category, the augmentation category. An exact Lagrangian cobordism between two Legendrian knots gives a functor of the augmentation categories of the two knots. We study the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Yu Pan

If a Legendrian knot $\Lambda$ in the standard contact 3-sphere bounds an orientable exact Lagrangian surface $\Sigma$ in the standard symplectic 4-ball, then the genus of $\Sigma$ is equal to the slice genus of (the smooth knot underlying)…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Tolga Etgü

In this short note, we construct a family of non-regular, and therefore non-decomposable, Lagrangian concordances between Lagrangian fillable Legendrian knots in the standard contact 3-dimensional sphere. More precisely, for every…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell , Roman Golovko

We prove that each overtwisted contact structure has knot types that are represented by infinitely many distinct transverse knots all with the same self-linking number. In some cases, we can even classify all such knots. We also show…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-04 John B. Etnyre

In this paper we classify Legendrian and transverse knots in the knot types obtained from positive torus knots by cabling. This classification allows us to demonstrate several new phenomena. Specifically, we show there are knot types that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 John B. Etnyre , Douglas J. LaFountain , Bulent Tosun

We derive constraints on Lagrangian concordances from Legendrian submanifolds of the standard contact sphere admitting exact Lagrangian fillings. More precisely, we show that such a concordance induces an isomorphism on the level of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Baptiste Chantraine , Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell , Paolo Ghiggini , Roman Golovko

An exact Lagrangian submanifold $L$ in the symplectization of standard contact $(2n-1)$-space with Legendrian boundary $\Sigma$ can be glued to itself along $\Sigma$. This gives a Legendrian embedding $\Lambda(L,L)$ of the double of $L$…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Sylvain Courte , Tobias Ekholm

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

We determine when a Legendrian quasipositive 3-braid closure in standard contact $\mathbb{R}^3$ admits an orientable or non-orientable exact Lagrangian filling. Our main result provides evidence for the orientable fillability conjecture of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-19 James Hughes , Jiajie Ma

This paper completely answers the question of when contact (r)-surgery on a Legendrian knot in the standard contact structure on the 3-sphere yields a symplectically fillable contact manifold for r in (0,1]. We also give obstructions for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-28 James Conway , John B. Etnyre , Bülent Tosun

We consider the question of when the operation of contact surgery with positive surgery coefficient, along a knot $K$ in a contact 3-manifold $Y$, gives rise to a weakly fillable contact structure. We show that this happens if and only if…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Thomas Mark , Bülent Tosun

We show that a two-dimensional totally real concordance can be approximated by a Lagrangian concordance whose Legendrian boundary has been stabilised both positively and negatively sufficiently many times. The main applications that we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell
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