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We investigate an equivalence relation on Legendrian knots in the standard contact three-space defined by the existence of an interpolating zigzag of Lagrangian cobordisms. We compare this relation, restricted to genus-$0$ surfaces, to…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Joshua M. Sabloff , David Shea Vela-Vick , C. -M. Michael Wong , Angela Wu

We prove that any Legendrian knot in $(S^3,\xi_{std})$ bounds an exact Lagrangian surface in $\mathbb{R}^4\setminus B^4$ after a sufficient number of stabilizations. In order to show this, we construct a family combinatorial moves on knot…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-23 Francesco Lin

We introduce constructions of exact Lagrangian cobordisms with cylindrical Legendrian ends and study their invariants which arise from Symplectic Field Theory. A pair $(X,L)$ consisting of an exact symplectic manifold $X$ and an exact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Tobias Ekholm , Ko Honda , Tamás Kálmán

We investigate the question of the existence of a Lagrangian concordance between two Legendrian knots in $\mathbb{R}^3$. In particular, we give obstructions to a concordance from an arbitrary knot to the standard Legendrian unknot, in terms…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Christopher R. Cornwell , Lenhard Ng , Steven Sivek

Many interesting spaces --- including all positroid strata and wild character varieties --- are moduli of constructible sheaves on a surface with microsupport in a Legendrian link. We show that the existence of cluster structures on these…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Vivek Shende , David Treumann , Harold Williams , Eric Zaslow

We show that a null-homologous transverse knot K in the complement of an overtwisted disk in a contact 3-manifold is the boundary of a Legendrian ribbon if and only if it possesses a Seifert surface S such that the self-linking number of K…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-08-09 S. Baader , K. Cieliebak , T. Vogel

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

In this short note we discuss high-dimensional examples of Legendrian submanifolds of the standard contact Euclidean space with an infinite number of exact Lagrangian fillings up to Hamiltonian isotopy. They are obtained from the examples…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Roman Golovko

Take a sequence of contactomorphisms of a contact three-manifold that $C^0$-converges to a homeomorphism. If the images of a Legendrian knot limit to a smooth knot under this sequence, we show that it is Legendrian. We prove this by…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell , Michael G. Sullivan

In this paper we will show how to classify Legendrian and transverse knots in the knot type of "sufficiently positive" cables of a knot in terms of the classification of the underlying knot. We will also completely explain the phenomena of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Apratim Chakraborty , John B. Etnyre , Hyunki Min

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 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 present two different constructions of invariants for Legendrian knots in the standard contact space $\R^3$. These invariants are defined combinatorially, in terms of certain planar projections, and are useful in distinguishing…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuri Chekanov

We prove that there are at least seeds many exact embedded Lagrangian fillings for Legendrian links of type $\mathsf{ADE}$. We also provide seeds many Lagrangian fillings with certain symmetries for type $\mathsf{BCFG}$. Our main tools are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Byung Hee An , Youngjin Bae , Eunjeong Lee

Complete integrability in a symplectic setting means the existence of a Lagrangian foliation leaf-wise preserved by the dynamics. In the paper we describe complete integrability in a contact set-up as a more subtle structure: a flag of two…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-14 B. Khesin , S. Tabachnikov

The paper deals with topologically trivial Legendrian knots in tight and overtwisted contact 3-manifolds. The first part contains a thorough exposition of the proof of the classification of topologically trivial Legendrian knots (i.e.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-11-16 Y. Eliashberg , M. Fraser

In this note we provide explicit constructions of exact Lagrangian embeddings of tori and Klein bottles inside the symplectisation of an overtwisted contact three-manifold. Note that any closed exact Lagrangian in the symplectisation is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell

In this paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a knot type to admit non-loose Legendrian and transverse representatives in some overtwisted contact structure, classify all non-loose rational unknots in lens spaces, and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Rima Chatterjee , John B. Etnyre , Hyunki Min , Anubhav Mukherjee

Suppose that L is a null--homologous Legendrian knot in a contact 3--manifold. We determine the connection between the sutured invariant of the complement of L and the Legendrian invariant defined by Lisca, Ozsvath, Stipsicz and Szabo. In…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-30 Andras I. Stipsicz , Vera Vertesi

We prove that there are precisely two embedded exact Lagrangian fillings of the standard Legendrian Hopf link, up to compactly supported Hamiltonian isotopy. It was known that the standard Legendrian Hopf link admitted at least two such…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Bryce Thomson