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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

We show that an exact Lagrangian cobordism $L\subset \mathbb R \times P \times \mathbb R$ from a Legendrian submanifold $\Lambda\subset P\times \mathbb R$ to itself satisfies $H_i(L;\mathbb F)=H_i(\Lambda;\mathbb F)$ for any field $\mathbb…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell , Roman Golovko

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

It is proved in this note that the analogues of the Bennequin inequality which provide an upper bound for the Bennequin invariant of a Legendrian knot in the standard contact three dimensional space in terms of the lower degree in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Emmanuel Ferrand

We find lower bounds on the number of intersection points between two relatively exact Hamiltonian isotopic Lagrangians. The bounds are given in terms of the cuplength of the Lagrangian in various multiplicative generalised cohomology…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Amanda Hirschi , Noah Porcelli

We construct a combinatorial invariant of Legendrian knots in standard contact three-space. This invariant, which encodes rational relative Symplectic Field Theory and extends contact homology, counts holomorphic disks with an arbitrary…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Lenhard Ng

Let $\Lambda$ be a Legendrian in the jet space of some manifold $X$. To a generating family presentation of $\Lambda$, we associate a constructible sheaf on $X \times \mathbb{R}$ whose singular support at infinity is $\Lambda$, and such…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Vivek Shende

We introduce a theory of virtual Legendrian knots. A virtual Legendrian knot is a cooriented wavefront on an oriented surface up to Legendrian isotopy of its lift to the unit cotangent bundle and stabilization and destablization of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Patricia Cahn , Asa Levi

The conormal lift of a link $K$ in $\R^3$ is a Legendrian submanifold $\Lambda_K$ in the unit cotangent bundle $U^* \R^3$ of $\R^3$ with contact structure equal to the kernel of the Liouville form. Knot contact homology, a topological link…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Tobias Ekholm , John Etnyre , Lenhard Ng , Michael Sullivan

In this note we show that $+1$-contact surgery on distinct Legendrian knots frequently produces contactomorphic manifolds. We also give examples where this happens for $-1$-contact surgery. As an amusing corollary we find overtwisted…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John B. Etnyre

In this paper, we study Legendrian realizations of cable links of knot types that are uniformly thick but not Legendrian simple, extending prior work of Dalton, the second author, and Traynor. This leads to new phenomena, such as stabilized…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Rima Chatterjee , John B. Etnyre , Hyunki Min , Thomas Rodewald

Arboreal singularities are an important class of Lagrangian singularities. They are conical, meaning that they can be understood by studying their links, which are singular Legendrian spaces in $S^{2n-1}_{\text{std}}$. Loose Legendrians are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Emmy Murphy

We define a differential graded algebra associated to Legendrian knots in thickened convex surfaces $\Sigma\times \mathbb{R}$. The algebra is defined in the same spirit as the Chekanov-Eliashberg DGA for Legendrians in $\mathbb{R}^3$, but…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Nancy Mae Eagles , Zijian Rong

Let E be a circle bundle over a Riemann surface that supports a contact structure transverse to the fibers. This paper presents a combinatorial definition of a differential graded algebra (DGA) that is an invariant of Legendrian knots in E.…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joshua M. Sabloff

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

We define an SFT-type invariant for Legendrian knots in the standard contact $\mathbb{R}^3$. The invariant is a deformation of the Chekanov-Eliashberg differential graded algebra. The differential consists of a part that counts index zero…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Milica Dukic

We show that for every genus $g \geq 0$, there exist quasipositive knots $K_0^g$ and $K_1^g$ such that there is a cobordism of genus $g=|g_4(K_1^g)-g_4(K_0^g)|$ between $K_0^g$ and $K_1^g$, but there is no ribbon cobordism of genus $g$ in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Maciej Borodzik , Paula Truöl

For $1$-dimensional Legendrian submanifolds of $1$-jet spaces, we extend the functorality of the Legendrian contact homology DG-algebra (DGA) from embedded exact Lagrangian cobordisms, as in \cite{EHK}, to a class of immersed exact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Yu Pan , Dan Rutherford

Differential graded algebra invariants are constructed for Legendrian links in the 1-jet space of the circle. In parallel to the theory for R^3, Poincare-Chekanov polynomials and characteristic algebras can be associated to such links. The…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lenhard Ng , Lisa Traynor

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