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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

Linearized Legendrian contact homology (LCH) and bilinearized LCH are important homological invariants for Legendrian submanifolds in contact geometry. For legendrian knots in $\mathbb{R}^3$, very little was previously known about the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Frédéric Bourgeois , Salammbo Connolly

Two Heegaard Floer knot complexes are called stably equivalent if an acyclic complex can be added to each complex to make them filtered chain homotopy equivalent. Hom showed that if two knots are concordant, then their knot complexes are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Samantha Allen

We modify the construction of knot Floer homology to produce a one-parameter family of homologies for knots in the three-sphere. These invariants can be used to give homomorphisms from the smooth concordance group to the integers, giving…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Peter Ozsvath , Andras Stipsicz , Zoltan Szabo

We define an invariant of transverse links in the standard contact 3-sphere as a distinguished element of the Khovanov homology of the link. The quantum grading of this invariant is the self-linking number of the link. For knots, this gives…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Olga Plamenevskaya

In a recent work of I.\,Dynnikov and M.\,Prasolov a new method of comparing Legendrian knots is proposed. In general, to apply the method requires a lot of technical work. In particular, one needs to search all rectangular diagrams of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Ivan Dynnikov , Vladimir Shastin

Knot Floer homology is an invariant for knots in the three-sphere for which the Euler characteristic is the Alexander-Conway polynomial of the knot. The aim of this paper is to study this homology for a class of satellite knots, so as to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-04-26 Yuanyuan Bao

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

We define combinatorial invariants of Legendrian and transverse links in universally tight lens spaces using grid diagrams, generalizing [OST08] and prove that they are equivalent to the invariants defined in [BVVV13] and [LOSS09]. We use…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Lev Tovstopyat-Nelip

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

We prove that the filtered GRID invariants of Legendrian links in link Floer homology, and consequently their associated invariants in the spectral sequence, obstruct decomposable Lagrangian cobordisms in the symplectization of the standard…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Mitchell Jubeir , Ina Petkova , Noah Schwartz , Zachary Winkeler , C. -M. Michael Wong

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

Given a knot K in S^3, let u^-(K) (respectively, u^+(K)) denote the minimum number of negative (respectively, positive) crossing changes among all unknotting sequences for K. We use knot Floer homology to construct the invariants l^-(K),…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Akram Alishahi , Eaman Eftekhary

We prove a conjecture of Migdail and Wehrli regarding the odd Khovanov cobordism maps associated to knotted spheres. Our key tool is Daemi's plane Floer homology, which we use in place of a Lee deformation. Continuing the analogy with Lee…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Dean Spyropoulos , Rithwik Susheel Vidyarthi , Chen Zhang

In this paper, the support genus of all Legendrian right handed trefoil knots and some other Legendrian knots is computed. We give examples of Legendrian knots in the three-sphere with the standard contact structure which have positive…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-01-28 Youlin Li , Jiajun Wang

We prove various results on contact structures obtained by contact surgery on a single Legendrian knot in the standard contact three--sphere. Our main tool are the contact Ozsvath--Szabo invariants.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paolo Lisca , Andras I. Stipsicz

We define several equivariant concordance invariants using knot Floer homology. We show that our invariants provide a lower bound for the equivariant slice genus and use this to give a family of strongly invertible slice knots whose…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Irving Dai , Abhishek Mallick , Matthew Stoffregen

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 define an invariant of contact 3-manifolds with convex boundary using Kronheimer and Mrowka's sutured monopole Floer homology theory (SHM). Our invariant can be viewed as a generalization of Kronheimer and Mrowka's contact invariant for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-16 John A. Baldwin , Steven Sivek

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