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We give an infinite family of knots such that for any given $r \geq 3$, the family contains a knot which can be embedded on a hexagonal $r$-mosaic, but cannot fit on a hexagonal $r$-mosaic in an embedding that achieves its crossing number.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Hugh Howards , Jiong Li , Xiaotian Liu , Anna Paulec

Given a Legendrian knot $\Lambda \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ and a vertical line dividing the front projection of $\Lambda$ into two halves, we construct a differential graded algebra associated to each half-knot. We then show that one may obtain…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Maciej Wlodek

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

The existence of topologically slice knots that are of infinite order in the knot concordance group followed from Freedman's work on topological surgery and Donaldson's gauge theoretic approach to 4-manifolds. Here, as an application of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-15 Matthew Hedden , Se-Goo Kim , Charles Livingston

Let $\Lambda, \Lambda'$ be a pair of closed Legendrian submanifolds in a closed contact manifold $(Y, \xi = Ker(\alpha))$ related by a Legendrian cobordism $W\subset (\mathbb{C}\times Y, \tilde{\xi}=Ker(-y dx +\alpha))$. In this note, we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Lara Simone Suárez

We consider S^1-families of Legendrian knots in the standard contact R^3. We define the monodromy of such a loop, which is an automorphism of the Chekanov-Eliashberg contact homology of the starting (and ending) point. We prove this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Tamas Kalman

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

To investigate the rigidity and flexibility of Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds, we investigate the minimal length of such a cobordism, which is a $1$-dimensional measurement of the non-cylindrical portion of the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Joshua M. Sabloff , Lisa Traynor

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

We study Legendrian knots in a cabled knot type. Specifically, given a topological knot type K, we analyze the Legendrian knots in knot types obtained from K by cabling, in terms of Legendrian knots in the knot type K. As a corollary of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-13 John B. Etnyre , Ko Honda

We introduce topological invariants of knots and braid conjugacy classes, in the form of differential graded algebras, and present an explicit combinatorial formulation for these invariants. The algebras conjecturally give the relative…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Lenhard Ng

In this note we establish the existence of a new type of rigidity of symplectic embeddings coming from obligatory intersections with symplectic planes. More precisely, we prove that if a Euclidean ball is symplectically embedded in the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Pazit Haim-Kislev , Richard Hind , Yaron Ostrover

Let $K_0$ and $K$ be knots in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Suppose that by a compactly supported Hamiltonian isotopy on $T^*\mathbb{R}^3$, the conormal bundle of $K_0$ is isotopic to a Lagrangian submanifold which intersects the zero section cleanly…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Yukihiro Okamoto

Ascending numbers are determined for 64 knots with at most n=10 crossings. After proving the theorem about the signature of alternating knot families, we distinguished all families of knots obtained from generating alternating knots with at…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-07-13 Slavik Jablan

A knot in the 3-sphere is called doubly slice if it is a slice of an unknotted 2-sphere in the 4-sphere. We give a bi-sequence of new obstructions for a knot being doubly slice. We construct it following the idea of Cochran-Orr-Teichner's…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Taehee Kim

We give a simple obstruction for a knot to be amphichiral, in terms of the homology of the 2-fold branched cover. We work with unoriented knots, and so obstruct both positive and negative amphichirality.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Stefan Friedl , Allison N. Miller , Mark Powell

This paper provides two obstructions to small knot complements in $S^3$ admitting hidden symmetries. The first obstruction is being cyclically commensurable with another knot complement. This result provides a partial answer to a conjecture…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Neil Hoffman

The Thurston-Bennequin invariant provides one notion of self-linking for any homologically-trivial Legendrian curve in a contact three-manifold. Here we discuss related analytic notions of self-linking for Legendrian knots in Euclidean…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-22 Chris Beasley , Brendan McLellan , Ruoran Zhang

We show that in $(S^3,\xi_{std})$ if $K$ is a non-trivial knot that realizes the three-dimensional Thurston-Bennequin bound (i.e. $K$ has a Legendrian representative $\Lambda$ with $tb(\Lambda)-rot(\Lambda)=2g(K)-1$), then $K$ has a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Zhenkun Li , Shunyu Wan

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