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We introduce and study strongly invertible Legendrian links in the standard contact three-dimensional space. We establish the equivariant analogs of basic results separately well-known for strongly invertible and Legendrian links, i.e. the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Carlo Collari , Paolo Lisca

We study a class of Legendrian surfaces in contact five-folds by encoding their wavefronts via planar combinatorial structures. We refer to these surfaces as Legendrian weaves, and to the combinatorial objects as N-graphs. First, we develop…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Roger Casals , Eric Zaslow

We introduce a Legendrian invariant built out of the Turaev torsion of generating families. This invariant is defined for a certain class of Legendrian submanifolds of 1-jet spaces, which we call of Euler type. We use our invariant to study…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Daniel Alvarez-Gavela , Kiyoshi Igusa

We define a new algebraic structure called Legendrian racks or racks with Legendrian structure, motivated by the front-projection Reidemeister moves for Legendrian knots. We provide examples of Legendrian racks and use these algebraic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Jose Ceniceros , Mohamed Elhamdadi , Sam Nelson

In this article, associated to a (bordered) Legendrian graph, we study and show the equivalence between two categorical Legendrian isotopy invariants: the augmentation category, a unital $A_{\infty}$-category, which lifts the set of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Byung Hee An , Youngjin Bae , Tao Su

An elementary stabilization of a Legendrian link $L$ in the spherical cotangent bundle $ST^*M$ of a surface $M$ is a surgery that results in attaching a handle to $M$ along two discs away from the image in $M$ of the projection of the link…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-21 V. Chernov , R. Sadykov

Using convex integration we give a constructive proof of the well-known fact that every continuous curve in a contact $3$-manifold can be approximated by a Legendrian curve.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Norbert Hungerbühler , Thomas Mettler , Micha Wasem

We study algebraic aspects of generalized Legendrian racks, which are nonassociative structures based on the Legendrian Reidemeister moves. We answer an open question characterizing the group of GL-structures on a given rack. As…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Luc Ta

This is mainly a survey article on the recent development of the theory of graph-like Legendrian unfoldings and its applications. The notion of big Legendrian submanifolds was introduced by Zakalyukin for describing the wave front…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-03 Shyuichi Izumiya

Let $Z \to Y^{2n+1}$ be the bundle of Legendrian $n$-planes over a contact manifold $Y$. We consider a foliation of $Z$ by canonical lifts of Legendrian submanifolds, called \emph{Legendrian submanifold path geometry}, whose flat model is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sung Ho Wang

This is an introduction to Legendrian contact homology and the Chekanov-Eliashberg differential graded algebra, with a focus on the setting of Legendrian knots in $\mathbb{R}^3$. This is the published version of the paper, but with a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-21 John B. Etnyre , Lenhard L. Ng

This is the third installment in a series of papers on the subject of derived contact structures. In this paper, we formally introduce the notion of a Legendrian structure in the derived context and provide natural constructions. We then…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Kadri İlker Berktav

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

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

This article reviews the development of Legendrian graph theory in the standard contact 3-sphere ($S^3, \xi_{std}$). We provide a generalized criterion under which the total Thurston-Bennequin invariant of a Legendrian graph (sum of tb of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Trung Chau , Tanushree Shah

We give an explicit algorithm to Legendrian realize a homologically nontrivial simple closed curve on a ribbon surface of a Legendrian graph in the standard contact structure $(\mathbb{R}^3,\xi_{\rm st})$. As an application, we obtain an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Eric Stenhede

In this article we discuss classical theorems from Convex Geometry in the context of topological drawings and beyond. In a simple topological drawing of the complete graph $K_n$, any two edges share at most one point: either a common vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Helena Bergold , Stefan Felsner , Manfred Scheucher , Felix Schröder , Raphael Steiner

Matroid theory is often thought of as a generalization of graph theory. In this paper we propose an analogous correspondence between embedded graphs and delta-matroids. We show that delta-matroids arise as the natural extension of graphic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Carolyn Chun , Iain Moffatt , Steven D. Noble , Ralf Rueckriemen

In an $\mathsf{L}$-embedding of a graph, each vertex is represented by an $\mathsf{L}$-segment, and two segments intersect each other if and only if the corresponding vertices are adjacent in the graph. If the corner of each…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Abu Reyan Ahmed , Felice De Luca , Sabin Devkota , Alon Efrat , Md Iqbal Hossain , Stephen Kobourov , Jixian Li , Sammi Abida Salma , Eric Welch

We generalize the tree-confluent graphs to a broader class of graphs called Delta-confluent graphs. This class of graphs and distance-hereditary graphs, a well-known class of graphs, coincide. Some results about the visualization of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Jeremy Yu Meng