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Each ruling of a Legendrian link can be naturally treated as a surface. For knots, the ruling is 2-graded if and only if the surface is orientable. For 2-graded rulings of homogeneous (in particular, alternating) knots, we prove that the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-11-26 Tamás Kálmán

The Kauffman-Vogel polynomials are three variable polynomial invariants of $4$-valent rigid vertex graphs. A one-variable specialization of the Kauffman-Vogel polynomials for unoriented $4$-valent rigid vertex graphs was given by using the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Wataru Yuasa

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

We study Legendrian surfaces determined by cubic planar graphs. Graphs with distinct chromatic polynomials determine surfaces that are not Legendrian isotopic, thus giving many examples of non-isotopic Legendrian surfaces with the same…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-19 David Treumann , Eric Zaslow

A connection between holomorphic and generating family invariants of Legendrian knots is established; namely, that the existence of a ruling (or decomposition) of a Legendrian knot is equivalent to the existence of an augmentation of its…

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

We prove two results on the classification of trivial Legendrian embeddings $g: G \rightarrow (S^3,\xi_{std})$ of planar graphs. First, the oriented Legendrian ribbon $R_g$ and rotation invariant $\text{rot}_g$ are a complete set of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Peter Lambert-Cole , Danielle O'Donnol

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

We introduce constructions of exact Lagrangian cobordisms with cylindrical Legendrian ends and study their invariants which arise from Symplectic Field Theory. A pair $(X,L)$ consisting of an exact symplectic manifold $X$ and an exact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Tobias Ekholm , Ko Honda , Tamás Kálmán

In this article we give necessary and sufficient conditions for two triples of integers to be realized as the Thurston-Bennequin number and the rotation number of a Legendrian theta-graph with all cycles unknotted. We show that these…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Danielle O'Donnol , Elena Pavelescu

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 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

We define relative versions of the classical invariants of Legendrian and transverse knots in contact 3-manifolds for knots that are homologous to a fixed reference knot. We show these invariants are well-defined and give some basic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Georgi D. Gospodinov

While standard Weisfeiler-Leman vertex labels are not able to distinguish even vertices of regular graphs, there is proposed and tested family of inexpensive polynomial time vertex and edge invariants, distinguishing much more difficult…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Jarek Duda

We construct a state model for the two-variable Kauffman polynomial using planar trivalent graphs. We also use this model to obtain a polynomial invariant for a certain type of trivalent graphs embedded in three-dimensional space.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-01 Carmen Caprau , James Tipton

Given a Legendrian link in $\#^k(S^1\times S^2)$, we extend the definition of a normal ruling from $J^1(S^1)$ given by Lavrov and Rutherford and show that the existence of an augmentation to any field of the Chekanov-Eliashberg differential…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Caitlin Leverson

We prove that the LOSS and GRID invariants of Legendrian links in knot Floer homology behave in certain functorial ways with respect to decomposable Lagrangian cobordisms in the symplectization of the standard contact structure on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-30 John A. Baldwin , Tye Lidman , C. -M. Michael Wong

In this paper we define invariants for primitive Legendrian knots in lens spaces L(p,q) for q not equal to 1. The main invariant is a differential graded algebra which is computed from a labeled Lagrangian projection of the pair (L(p,q),…

General Topology · Mathematics 2009-01-28 Joan E. Licata

We investigate Legendrian graphs in $(\R^3, \xi_{std})$. We extend the classical invariants, Thurston-Bennequin number and rotation number to Legendrian graphs. We prove that a graph can be Legendrian realized with all its cycles Legendrian…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Danielle O'Donnol , Elena Pavelescu

In this paper we are concerned with various graph invariants (girth, diameter, expansion constants, eigenvalues of the Laplacian, tree number) and their analogs for weighted graphs -- weighing the graph changes a combinatorial problem to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dmitry Jakobson , Igor Rivin