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Recently, there have been several breakthroughs in the classification of tight contact structures. We give an outline on how to exploit methods developed by Ko Honda and John Etnyre to obtain classification results for specific examples of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 P. Ghiggini , S. Schoenenberger

This is a survey paper on Legendrian and transversal knots for Handbook of Knot Theory.

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

In the search for transverse-universal knots in the standard contact structure on $\mathbb{S}^3$, we present a classification of the transverse twist knots with maximal self-linking number, that admit only overtwisted contact branched…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Sebastian Zapata

We classify the positive definite intersection forms that arise from smooth 4-manifolds with torsion-free homology bounded by positive integer surgeries on the right-handed trefoil. A similar, slightly less complete classification is given…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Marco Golla , Christopher Scaduto

We provide a $C^0$ counterexample to the Lagrangian Arnold conjecture in the cotangent bundle of a closed manifold. Additionally, we prove a quantitative $h$-principle for subcritical isotropic embeddings in contact manifolds, and provide…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Maksim Stokić

We show that a two-dimensional totally real concordance can be approximated by a Lagrangian concordance whose Legendrian boundary has been stabilised both positively and negatively sufficiently many times. The main applications that we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell

We use the contact invariant defined in [2] to construct a new invariant of Legendrian knots in Kronheimer and Mrowka's monopole knot homology theory (KHM), following a prescription of Stipsicz and V\'ertesi. Our Legendrian invariant…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-12 John A. Baldwin , Steven Sivek

Non-Hermitian systems host band degeneracies that are fundamentally distinct from those in Hermitian systems, most notably exceptional points (EPs) where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. In three dimensional (3D) non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Bin Jiang , Aolong Guo , Qilin Cai , Jian-Hua Jiang

To a Legendrian knot, one can associate an $\mathcal{A}_{\infty}$ category, the augmentation category. An exact Lagrangian cobordism between two Legendrian knots gives a functor of the augmentation categories of the two knots. We study the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Yu Pan

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

We study Legendrian singularities arising in complex contact geometry. We define a one-parameter family of bases in the ring of Legendrian characteristic classes such that any Legendrian Thom polynomial has nonnegative coefficients when…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Malgorzata Mikosz , Piotr Pragacz , Andrzej Weber

We study piecewise linear knot diagrams in the base of almost toric fibrations of symplectic four-manifolds. These diagrams translate to deformations of the almost toric fibration. We give several applications to symplectic topology, among…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Joel Schmitz

We demonstrate that the contact cosmetic surgery conjecture holds true for all non-trivial Legendrian knots, with the possible exception of Lagrangian slice knots. We also discuss the contact cosmetic surgeries on Legendrian unknots and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-07 John B. Etnyre , Tanushree Shah

We present explicit infinite families of twisted torus knots that are not fibered. Our approach relies on an explicit formula for the Alexander polynomial derived in our previous work. We show that the leading coefficients of the Alexander…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Adnan , Kyungbae Park

Distinct knots K, K' can sometimes share a common p/q-framed Dehn surgery. A folk conjecture held that for a fixed pair of knots, this can occur for at most one value of p/q. We disprove this conjecture by constructing pairs of distinct…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Marc Kegel , Lisa Piccirillo

In this paper we show that the singular locus of a Legendrian foliation as defined in [Hua13] is a compact submanifold whose connected components are of codimension at most two. As a consequence, given any closed $(n+1)$-dimensional…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-24 Yang Huang

Mosaic tiles were first introduced by Lomonaco and Kauffman in 2008 to describe quantum knots, and have since been studied for their own right. Using a modified set of tiles, front projections of Legendrian knots can be built from mosaics…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Margaret Kipe , Samantha Pezzimenti , Leif Schaumann , Luc Ta , Wing Hong Tony Wong

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 proof here the existence of a topological thick and thin decomposition of any closed definable thick isolated singularity germ in the spirit of the recently discovered metric thick and thin decomposition of complex normal surface…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-22 Lev Birbrair , Alexandre Fernandes , Vincent Grandjean

We construct $\sorth{p} \times \sorth{q}$-invariant special Lagrangian (SL) cones in $\C^{p+q}$. These SL cones are natural higher-dimensional analogues of the $\sorth{2}$-invariant SL cones constructed previously by MH and used in our…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-05-11 Mark Haskins , Nikolaos Kapouleas