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Ozsv\'ath and Stipsicz showed that some Eliashberg-Chekanov twist knots, which are Whitehead doubles of the unknot, are not Legendrian simple. We extend their result by considering some Whitehead doubles of the trefoil: Using properties of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Saliha Kıvanç

We explore the construction of Legendrian spheres in contact manifolds of any dimension. Two constructions involving open books work in any contact manifold, while one introduced by Ekholm works only in $\mathbb{R}^{2n+1}$. We show that…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Agniva Roy

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

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

The Chekanov-Eliashberg dg-algebra is an algebraic invariant of Legendrian submanifolds of contact manifolds, whose definition recently has been extended to singular Legendrians. We describe a way of constructing simpler models of this…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Martin Bäcke

All knots in $R^3$ possess Seifert surfaces, and so the classical Thurston-Bennequin and rotation (or Maslov) invariants for Legendrian knots in a contact structure on $R^3$ can be defined. The definitions extend easily to null-homologous…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-02-27 Paul A. Schweitzer SJ , Fábio S. Souza

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

We prove the equivalence of the invariants EH(L) and LOSS-(L) for oriented Legendrian knots L in the 3-sphere equipped with the standard contact structure, partially extending a previous result by Stipsicz and Vertesi. In the course of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-04-07 Marco Golla

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 give a complete coarse classification of Legendrian and transverse torus knots in any contact structure on $S^3$.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-07-01 John B. Etnyre , Hyunki Min , Anubhav Mukherjee

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

An elementary stabilization of a Legendrian link $L$ in the spherical cotangent bundle $ST^*M$ of a surface $M$ is a surgery that results in attaching a handle to $M$ along two discs away from the image in $M$ of the projection of the link…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-21 V. Chernov , R. Sadykov

We classify the Legendrian torus knots in S^1\times S^2 with its standard tight contact structure up to Legendrian isotopy.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-08 Feifei Chen , Fan Ding , Youlin Li

In this short note, we construct a family of non-regular, and therefore non-decomposable, Lagrangian concordances between Lagrangian fillable Legendrian knots in the standard contact 3-dimensional sphere. More precisely, for every…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell , Roman Golovko

We classify Legendrian torus knots and figure eight knots in the tight contact structure on the 3-sphere up to Legendrian isotopy. As a corollary to this we also obtain the classification of transversal torus knots and figure eight knots up…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John B. Etnyre , Ko Honda

The study of the Vassiliev invariants of Legendrian knots was started by D. Fuchs and S. Tabachnikov who showed that the groups of complex-valued Vassiliev invariants of Legendrian and of framed knots in the standard contact $R^3$ are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Vladimir Tchernov

This article introduces two new constructions at the higher homotopy level in the space of Legendrian embeddings in $(\mathbb{R}^3, \xi_{\operatorname{std}})$. We first introduce the parametric Legendrian satellite construction, showing…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-30 Eduardo Fernández , Javier Martínez-Aguinaga , Francisco Presas

We introduce a theory of virtual Legendrian knots. A virtual Legendrian knot is a cooriented wavefront on an oriented surface up to Legendrian isotopy of its lift to the unit cotangent bundle and stabilization and destablization of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Patricia Cahn , Asa Levi

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

Given a front projection of a Legendrian knot $K$ in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ which has been cut into several pieces along vertical lines, we assign a differential graded algebra to each piece and prove a van Kampen theorem describing the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-03 Steven Sivek