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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

Knot contact homology is an invariant of knots derived from Legendrian contact homology which has numerous connections to the knot group. We use basic properties of knot groups to prove that knot contact homology detects every torus knot.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Cameron Gordon , Tye Lidman

We present classification results for exceptional Legendrian realisations of torus knots. These are the first results of that kind for non-trivial topological knot types. Enumeration results of Ding-Li-Zhang concerning tight contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Hansjörg Geiges , Sinem Onaran

A Legendrian or transverse knot in an overtwisted contact 3-manifold is non-loose if its complement is tight and loose if its complement is overtwisted. We define three measures of the extent of non-looseness of a non-loose knot and show…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Kenneth L. Baker , Sinem Onaran

We investigate when a Legendrian knot in standard contact $\mathbb{R}^3$ has a non-orientable exact Lagrangian filling. We prove analogs of several results in the orientable setting, develop new combinatorial obstructions to fillability,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Linyi Chen , Grant Crider-Phillips , Braeden Reinoso , Joshua M. Sabloff , Leyu Yau

We give a classification of Legendrian torus links. Along the way, we give the first classification of infinite families of Legendrian links where some smooth symmetries of the link cannot be realized by Legendrian isotopies. We also give…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Jennifer Dalton , John B. Etnyre , Lisa Traynor

We prove a complete classification theorem for loose Legendrian knots in an oriented 3-manifold, generalizing results of Dymara and Ding-Geiges. Our approach is to classify knots in a $3$-manifold $M$ that are transverse to a nowhere-zero…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Patricia Cahn , Vladimir Chernov

In this note, we show that transverse knots have unique standard neighborhoods and prove a structure theorem about non-loose Legendrian knots. We also prove a finiteness result for transverse knots in a tight contact manifold. The common…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-06 John B. Etnyre

We show that for a big class of contact manifolds the groups of order $\leq n$ invariants (with values in an arbitrary Abelian group) of Legendrian, of transverse and of framed knots are canonically isomorphic. On the other hand for an…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Tchernov

We prove some classification results for tight contact structure in the 3-space, -ball and -sphere that are invariant with respect to some arbitrary involution, that is conjugated to the standard rotation around the x-axis. Unlike the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Mirko Torresani

We present new families of examples of non-simple prime Legendrian and transversal knots in tight Lens spaces, which demonstrate that the botany of Legendrians in Lens space is rich. In fact, there are more non-isotopic Legendrians that are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Ipsita Datta , Tanushree Shah

We define invariants of null--homologous Legendrian and transverse knots in contact 3--manifolds. The invariants are determined by elements of the knot Floer homology of the underlying smooth knot. We compute these invariants, and show that…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-21 Paolo Lisca , Peter Ozsváth , András I. Stipsicz , Zoltán Szabó

We consider S^1-families of Legendrian knots in the standard contact R^3. We define the monodromy of such a loop, which is an automorphism of the Chekanov-Eliashberg contact homology of the starting (and ending) point. We prove this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Tamas Kalman

In this paper we will show how to classify Legendrian and transverse knots in the knot type of "sufficiently positive" cables of a knot in terms of the classification of the underlying knot. We will also completely explain the phenomena of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Apratim Chakraborty , John B. Etnyre , Hyunki Min

In every Engel manifold we construct an infinite family of pairwise non-isotopic transverse tori that are all smoothly isotopic. To distinguish the transverse tori in the family we introduce a homological invariant of transverse tori that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Marc Kegel

Twisted torus knots are torus knots with some full twists added along some number of adjacent strands. There are infinitely many known examples of twisted torus knots which are actually torus knots. We give eight more infinite families of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Sangyop Lee , Thiago de Paiva

It is a basic question in contact geometry to classify all non-isotopic tight contact structures on a given 3-manifold. If the manifold has a boundary, we need also specify the dividing set on the boundary. In this paper, we answer the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Zhenkun Li , Jessica J. Zhang

In the present note, we will show that there are infinitely many composite twisted torus knots.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-09-16 Kanji Morimoto

We present examples of Legendrian knots in $\mathbb{R}^3$ that have linearized Legendrian contact homology over $\mathbb{Z}$ containing torsion. As a consequence, we show that there exist augmentations of Legendrian knots over $\mathbb{Z}$…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Robert Lipshitz , Lenhard Ng

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