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We show that a link in an open book can be realized as a strongly quasipositive braid if and only if it bounds a Legendrian ribbon with respect to the associated contact structure. This generalizes a result due to Baader and Ishikawa for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Kyle Hayden

We prove that there are at least as many exact embedded Lagrangian fillings as seeds for Legendrian links of finite type $\mathsf{ADE}$ or affine type $\tilde{\mathsf{D}} \tilde{\mathsf{E}}$. We also provide as many Lagrangian fillings with…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Byung Hee An , Youngjin Bae , Eunjeong Lee

For a Legendrian $(2,n)$ torus knot or link with maximal Thurston-Bennequin number, Ekholm, Honda, and K\'alm\'an constructed $C_n$ exact Lagrangian fillings, where $C_n$ is the $n$-th Catalan number. We show that these exact Lagrangian…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-05 Yu Pan

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

This work studies Legendrian loop actions on exact Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian links in $(\R^3, \xi_{\st})$. By identifying the induced action of Legendrian loops as generators of cluster modular groups, we establish the existence of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-20 James Hughes

We produce the first examples relating non-orientable exact Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian links to cluster theory, showing that the ungraded augmentation variety of certain max-tb representatives of Legendrian $2$-bridge links is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Orsola Capovilla-Searle , James Hughes , Daping Weng

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

We prove that any rational linear combination of Pontryagin numbers that is not a multiple of the signature is unbounded on connected closed oriented manifolds of nonnegative sectional curvature. Combining our result with Gromov's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-06 D. Kotschick

In this short note we discuss high-dimensional examples of Legendrian submanifolds of the standard contact Euclidean space with an infinite number of exact Lagrangian fillings up to Hamiltonian isotopy. They are obtained from the examples…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Roman Golovko

We construct infinite families of non-simple isotopy classes of links in overtwisted contact structures on $S^1$-bundles over surfaces. These examples include: (1) a pair of Legendrian links that are not Legendrian isotopic, but which are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Patricia Cahn , Rima Chatterjee , Vladimir Chernov

Lagrangian cobordism induces a preorder on the set of Legendrian links in any contact 3-manifold. We show that any finite collection of null-homologous Legendrian links in a tight contact 3-manifold with a common rotation number has an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Joshua M. Sabloff , David Shea Vela-Vick , C. -M. Michael Wong

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

It was asked by J.Birman, Williams, and L.Rudolph whether nontrivial Lorentz knots have always positive signature. Lorentz knots are examples of positive braids (in our convention they have all crossings negative so they are negative…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-05-08 Jozef H. Przytycki

We consider (holomorphic) Lagrangian fibrations X->P^n that satisfy some natural hypotheses. We prove that there are only finitely many such Lagrangian fibrations up to deformation.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Justin Sawon

We study the relationship between the number of full twists in positive braid representations of satellite links and their companion links. We construct infinitely many satellite links that admit positive braid representations with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Thiago de Paiva , Yi Liu , Paolo Piccione

We derive constraints on Lagrangian concordances from Legendrian submanifolds of the standard contact sphere admitting exact Lagrangian fillings. More precisely, we show that such a concordance induces an isomorphism on the level of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Baptiste Chantraine , Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell , Paolo Ghiggini , Roman Golovko

We prove that Legendrian and transverse links in overtwisted contact structures having overtwisted complements can be classified coarsely by their classical invariants. We further prove that any coarse equivalence class of loose links has…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Rima Chatterjee

We prove some necessary conditions for a link to be either concordant to a quasi-positive link, quasi-positive, positive, or the closure of a positive braid. The main applications of our results are a characterisation of positive links with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Carlo Collari

We collect some observations about Legendrian links with non-vanishing contact invariants, mostly concerning the non-loose realizations of links and the addition of boundary-parallel half Giroux torsion. In particular, we show that every…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Alberto Cavallo , Irena Matkovič

Every null-homologous link in an oriented 3-manifold is isotopic to the boundary of a ribbon of a Legendrian graph for any overtwisted contact structure. However this is not the case if the boundary is required to be non-loose. Here, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Kenneth L. Baker , Sinem Onaran