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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

Contact homology for Legendrian submanifolds in standard contact $(2n+1)$-space is rigorously defined using moduli spaces of holomorphic disks with Lagrangian boundary conditions in complex $n$-space. It provides new invariants of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias Ekholm , John Etnyre , Michael G. Sullivan

Legendrian Contact Homology (LCH) and its augmentations are important invariants of Legendrian submanifolds, and for Legendrian knots in the standard contact 3-space in particular. We increase understanding of the algebraic structure of LCH…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Jiajie Ma , Joshua M. Sabloff

We define a differential graded algebra associated to Legendrian knots in thickened convex surfaces $\Sigma\times \mathbb{R}$. The algebra is defined in the same spirit as the Chekanov-Eliashberg DGA for Legendrians in $\mathbb{R}^3$, but…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Nancy Mae Eagles , Zijian Rong

We show that there exists a Legendrian knot with maximal Thurston-Bennequin invariant whose contact homology is trivial. We also provide another Legendrian knot which has the same knot type and classical invariants but nonvanishing contact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Steven Sivek

A rigorous foundation for the contact homology of Legendrian submanifolds in a contact manifold of the form $P\times \R$ where $P$ is an exact symplectic manifold is established. The class of such contact manifolds include 1-jet spaces of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias Ekholm , John Etnyre , Michael G. Sullivan

To a Legendrian knot, one can associate an $\mathcal{A}_{\infty}$ category, the augmentation category. An exact Lagrangian cobordism between two Legendrian knots gives a functor of the augmentation categories of the two knots. We study the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Yu Pan

We prove that the LOSS and GRID invariants of Legendrian links in knot Floer homology behave in certain functorial ways with respect to decomposable Lagrangian cobordisms in the symplectization of the standard contact structure on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-30 John A. Baldwin , Tye Lidman , C. -M. Michael Wong

In this article, associated to a (bordered) Legendrian graph, we study and show the equivalence between two categorical Legendrian isotopy invariants: the augmentation category, a unital $A_{\infty}$-category, which lifts the set of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Byung Hee An , Youngjin Bae , Tao Su

Given a Legendrian submanifold in any dimension, we prove that two augmentations are isomorphic within the positive augmentation category exactly when they differ by a combination of a dga homotopy and a dilation. This extends the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Honghao Gao , Hanming Liu

In this article we define Lagrangian concordance of Legendrian knots, the analogue of smooth concordance of knots in the Legendrian category. In particular we study the relation of Lagrangian concordance under Legendrian isotopy. The focus…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Baptiste Chantraine

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

Loose Legendrian n-submanifolds, for n at least 2, were introduced by Murphy and proved to be flexible in the h-principle sense: any two loose Legendrian submanifolds that are formally Legendrian isotopic are also actually Legendrian…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Tobias Ekholm

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 investigate an equivalence relation on Legendrian knots in the standard contact three-space defined by the existence of an interpolating zigzag of Lagrangian cobordisms. We compare this relation, restricted to genus-$0$ surfaces, to…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Joshua M. Sabloff , David Shea Vela-Vick , C. -M. Michael Wong , Angela Wu

We define an algebraic/combinatorial object on the front projection $\Sigma$ of a Legendrian knot called a Morse complex sequence, abbreviated MCS. This object is motivated by the theory of generating families and provides new connections…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Michael Henry

We define an invariant of Legendrian links in the double-point enhanced grid homology of a link, and prove that it obstructs decomposable Lagrangian cobordisms in the symplectization of the standard contact structure on $\mathbb R^3$.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Ashton Lewis , Zachary Ojakli , Ina Petkova , Benjamin Shapiro

We give a combinatorial description of the Legendrian differential graded algebra associated to a Legendrian knot in PxR, where P is a punctured Riemann surface. As an application we show that for any integer k and any homology class h in…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Johan Björklund

Given an augmentation for a Legendrian surface in a $1$-jet space, $\Lambda \subset J^1(M)$, we explicitly construct an object, $\mathcal{F} \in Sh_{\Lambda}$, of the (derived) category from arXiv:1402.0490 of constructible sheaves on…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Dan Rutherford , Michael G. Sullivan

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