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The technique of generating families produces obstructions to the existence of embedded Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds in the symplectizations of 1-jet bundles. In fact, generating families may be used to construct a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Joshua M. Sabloff , Lisa Traynor

We prove that for any pair of Legendrian representatives of the Chekanov-Eliashberg twist knots with different LOSS invariants, any negative rational contact $r$-surgery with $r\neq -1$ always gives rise to different contact 3-manifolds…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Shunyu Wan , Hugo Zhou

The paper associates Lagrangian submanifolds in symplectic toric varieties to certain tropical curves inside the convex polyhedral domains of $\R^n$ that appear as the images of the moment map of the toric varieties. We pay a particular…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Grigory Mikhalkin

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

Let $\lambda$ be a Legendrian link in standard contact $\mathbb{R}^3$, such that $L_1$, $L_2$ are two exact fillings of $\lambda$ and $\varphi$ is a Legendrian loop of $\lambda$. We study fillability and isotopy characterizations of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-26 James Hughes , Agniva Roy

We relate the machinery of persistence modules to the Legendrian contact homology theory and to Poisson bracket invariants, and use it to show the existence of connecting trajectories of contact and symplectic Hamiltonian flows.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Michael Entov , Leonid Polterovich

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

By a result due to Ziltener, there exist no closed embedded Bohr-Sommerfeld Lagrangians inside $\mathbb CP^n$ for the prequantisation bundle whose total space is the standard contact sphere. On the other hand, any embedded monotone…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell , Roman Golovko

In this work, we prove that every complex contact structure gives rise to a distinguished type of almost contact metric 3-structure. As an application of our main result, we provide several new examples of manifolds which admit taut contact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Eder M. Correa

We discuss the dynamics of a particular two-dimensional (2D) physical system in the four dimensional (4D) (non-)commutative phase space by exploiting the consistent Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms based on the symplectic structures…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 R. P. Malik

We sketch in this article a new theory, which we call Symplectic Field Theory or SFT, which provides an approach to Gromov-Witten invariants of symplectic manifolds and their Lagrangian submanifolds in the spirit of topological field…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yakov Eliashberg , Alexander Givental , Helmut Hofer

We define a differential graded algebra associated to Legendrian knots in Seifert fibered spaces with transverse contact structures. This construction is distinguished from other combinatorial realizations of contact homology invariants by…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-14 Joan E. Licata , Joshua M. Sabloff

The paper deals with topologically trivial Legendrian knots in tight and overtwisted contact 3-manifolds. The first part contains a thorough exposition of the proof of the classification of topologically trivial Legendrian knots (i.e.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-11-16 Y. Eliashberg , M. Fraser

Lagrangian contact supersymmetries (depending on derivatives of arbitrary order) are treated in very general setting. The cohomology of the variational bicomplex on an arbitrary graded manifold and the iterated cohomology of a generic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Giachetta , L. Mangiarotti , G. Sardanashvily

We present the first examples of elements in the fundamental group of the space of Legendrian links in the standard contact 3-sphere whose action on the Legendrian contact DGA is of infinite order. This allows us to construct the first…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Roger Casals , Lenhard Ng

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 survey the interactions between foliations and contact structures in dimension three, with an emphasis on sutured manifolds and invariants of sutured contact manifolds. This paper contains two original results: the fact that a closed…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Vincent Colin , Ko Honda

This paper is Part I of a two-part series. We investigate bifurcation phenomena in Lagrangian systems with various boundary conditions and constraints, focusing on the interplay between Morse theory and the existence of multiple solutions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Guangcun Lu

We use parameterized Morse theory on the pages of an open book decomposition to efficiently encode the contact topology in terms of a labelled graph on a disjoint union of tori (one per binding component). This construction allows us to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-24 David T. Gay , Joan E. Licata

Contact geometry allows to describe some thermodynamic and dissipative systems. In this paper we introduce a new geometric structure in order to describe time-dependent contact systems: cocontact manifolds. Within this setting we develop…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-27 Manuel de León , Jordi Gaset , Xavier Gràcia , Miguel Carlos Muñoz-Lecanda , Xavier Rivas