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In the present paper, we will show that for any integer n>0 there are infinitely many twisted torus knots with n-string essential tangle decompositions.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-06-21 Kanji Morimoto

The existence of ring-like and knotted solitons in O(3) non-linear sigma model is analysed. The role of isotopy of knots/links in classifying such solitons is pointed out. Appearance of torus knot solitons is seen.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 T R Govindarajan

In the unit cotangent bundle of $\mathbb{R}^3$, we consider loops of Legendrian tori arising as families of the unit conormal bundles of smooth knots in $\mathbb{R}^3$. In this paper, using the cord algebra of knots, we give a topological…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Yukihiro Okamoto , Marián Poppr

The stable Khovanov-Rozansky homology of torus knots has been conjecturally described as the Koszul homology of an explicit non-regular sequence of polynomials. We verify this conjecture against newly available computational data for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Eugene Gorsky , Lukas Lewark

Harvey-Kawamuro-Plamenevskaya demonstrated the existence of (transversely) non-isotopic transverse knots such that for every $n>1$ their $n$-fold cyclic branched covers are contactomorphic. In this short note, we construct other examples of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Marc Kegel , Isacco Nonino

We define the notion of a knot type having Legendrian large cables and show that having this property implies that the knot type is not uniformly thick. Moreover, there are solid tori in this knot type that do not thicken to a solid torus…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Andrew McCullough

We classify Legendrian rational unknots with tight complements in the lens spaces L(p,1) up to coarse equivalence. As an example of the general case, this classification is also worked out for L(5,2). The knots are described explicitly in a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-22 Hansjörg Geiges , Sinem Onaran

We show that tori in Engel 4-manifolds behave analogously to knots in contact 3-manifolds: Every torus with trivial normal bundle is isotopic to infinitely many distinct transverse tori, distinguished locally (and globally in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Robert E. Gompf

We apply knot Floer homology to exhibit an infinite family of transversely nonsimple prime knots starting with $10_{132}$. We also discuss the combinatorial relationship between grid diagrams, braids, and Legendrian and transverse knots in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Tirasan Khandhawit , Lenhard Ng

Torus knots are an important family of knots about which much is understood; invariants of torus knots often exhibit nice formulas, making them convenient and fundamental building blocks for examples in knot theory. Spiral knots, defined…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Sarah Blackwell , Ashish Das , Sydney Mayer , Luke Moyar , Faisal Quraishi , Ryan Stees

We obtain the full list of Goeritz invariants of all torus knots and links.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-12-31 K. Ahara , S. Watanabe

We classify topologically trivial Legendrian $\Theta$-graphs and identify the complete family of nondestabilizeable Legendrian realizations in this topological class. In contrast to all known results for Legendrian knots, this is an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-06-03 Peter Lambert-Cole , Danielle O'Donnol

This work is concerned with the calculation of the fundamental group of torus knots. Torus knots are special types of knots which wind around a torus a number of times in the longitudinal and meridional directions. We compute and describe…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Ilyas Aderogba Mustapha , Paul Arnaud Songhafouo , Donald Stanley

In this article, we introduce rack invariants of oriented Legendrian knots in the 3-dimensional Euclidean space endowed with the standard contact structure, which we call Legendrian racks. These invariants form a generalization of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Dheeraj Kulkarni , T. V. H. Prathamesh

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

We propose a class of toric Lagrangian A-branes on the resolved conifold that is suitable to describe torus knots on S^3. The key role is played by the SL(2,Z) transformation, which generates a general torus knot from the unknot. Applying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-14 Hans Jockers , Albrecht Klemm , Masoud Soroush

We investigate the line between tight and overtwisted for surgeries on fibred transverse knots in contact 3-manifolds. When the contact structure $\xi_K$ is supported by the fibred knot $K \subset M$, we obtain a characterisation of when…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-12-28 James Conway

The set of real-analytic Legendrian links with respect to the standard contact structure on the 3-sphere $S^3$ corresponds both to the set of totally tangential $\mathbb{C}$-links as defined by Rudolph and to the set of stable knotted field…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Benjamin Bode

We classify the real tight contact structures on solid tori up to equivariant contact isotopy and apply the results to the classification of real tight structures on $S^3$ and real lens spaces $L(p,\pm 1)$. We prove that there is a unique…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Sinem Onaran , Ferit Öztürk

Suppose that L is a null--homologous Legendrian knot in a contact 3--manifold. We determine the connection between the sutured invariant of the complement of L and the Legendrian invariant defined by Lisca, Ozsvath, Stipsicz and Szabo. In…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-30 Andras I. Stipsicz , Vera Vertesi