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In this paper, we present new obstructions to the existence of Lagrangian cobordisms in $\mathbb{R}^4$ that depend only on the enriched knot diagrams of the boundary knots or links, using holomorphic curve techniques. We define enriched…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Ipsita Datta

We characterize which Legendrian $4$-plat knots in the standard contact $3$-space have exact orientable Lagrangian fillings. As a corollary, we show that the underlying smooth knot types of fillable Legendrian $4$-plats are positive.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Erin R. Lipman , Joshua M. Sabloff

We investigate the question of the existence of a Lagrangian concordance between two Legendrian knots in $\mathbb{R}^3$. In particular, we give obstructions to a concordance from an arbitrary knot to the standard Legendrian unknot, in terms…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Christopher R. Cornwell , Lenhard Ng , Steven Sivek

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 show that the family of smoothly non-isotopic Legendrian pretzel knots from the work of Cornwell-Ng-Sivek that all have the same Legendrian invariants as the standard unknot have front-spuns that are Legendrian isotopic to the front-spun…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell , Roman Golovko

We show that up to stabilizations, smooth ribbon cobordisms can be realized by decomposable Lagrangian cobordisms. We also define the notion of stabilization for Lagrangian cobordisms and show that it can be used to find new Lagrangian…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-10 John B. Etnyre , Caitlin Leverson

Many interesting spaces --- including all positroid strata and wild character varieties --- are moduli of constructible sheaves on a surface with microsupport in a Legendrian link. We show that the existence of cluster structures on these…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Vivek Shende , David Treumann , Harold Williams , Eric Zaslow

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

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 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

In this short note we provide the examples of pairs of closed, connected Legendrian non-isotopic Legendrian submanifolds $(\Lambda_{-}, \Lambda_{+})$ of the $(4n+1)$-dimensional contact vector space, $n>1$, such that there exist Lagrangian…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Roman Golovko

This paper discusses the cobordism of Lagrangian submanifolds (in the monotone setting) and structures it as a category that is related in a functorial way to an appropriate (derived) Fukaya category. Are also discussed obstructions to…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Paul Biran , Octav Cornea

This is an introduction to Legendrian contact homology and the Chekanov-Eliashberg differential graded algebra, with a focus on the setting of Legendrian knots in $\mathbb{R}^3$. This is the published version of the paper, but with a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-21 John B. Etnyre , Lenhard L. Ng

An exact Lagrangian submanifold $L$ in the symplectization of standard contact $(2n-1)$-space with Legendrian boundary $\Sigma$ can be glued to itself along $\Sigma$. This gives a Legendrian embedding $\Lambda(L,L)$ of the double of $L$…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Sylvain Courte , Tobias Ekholm

We obtain upper and lower bounds for the relative Gromov width of Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds. Upper bounds arise from the existence of $J$-holomorphic disks with boundary on the Lagrangian cobordism that pass…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Joshua M. Sabloff , Lisa Traynor

We study some properties of decomposable exact Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian links in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with the standard contact structure. In particular, for any decomposable exact Lagrangian filling $L$ of a Legendrian link $K$,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Watchareepan Atiponrat

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

Take a sequence of contactomorphisms of a contact three-manifold that $C^0$-converges to a homeomorphism. If the images of a Legendrian knot limit to a smooth knot under this sequence, we show that it is Legendrian. We prove this by…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell , Michael G. Sullivan

We study the behavior of Legendrian and transverse knots under the operation of connected sums. As a consequence we show that there exist Legendrian knots that are not distinguished by any known invariant. Moreover, we classify Legendrian…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John B. Etnyre , Ko Honda

We prove that loose Legendrian knots in a rational homology contact 3-sphere, satisfying some additional hypothesis, are Legendrian isotopic if and only if they have the same classical invariants. The proof requires a result of Dymara on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Alberto Cavallo