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We prove several interpolation results for holomorphic Legendrian curves lying in an odd dimensional complex Euclidean space with the standard contact structure. In particular, we show that an arbitrary countable set of points in…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Andrej Svetina

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 study the notion of orderability of isotopy classes of Legendrian submanifolds and their universal covers, with some weaker results concerning spaces of contactomorphisms. Our main result is that orderability is equivalent to the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Simon Allais , Pierre-Alexandre Arlove

We construct a combinatorial invariant of Legendrian knots in standard contact three-space. This invariant, which encodes rational relative Symplectic Field Theory and extends contact homology, counts holomorphic disks with an arbitrary…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Lenhard Ng

We give an $h$--principle type result for a class of Legendrian embeddings in contact manifolds of dimension at least $5$. These Legendrians, referred to as loose, have trivial pseudo-holomorphic invariants. We demonstrate they are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Emmy Murphy

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 combinatorial description of the Legendrian contact homology algebra associated to a Legendrian link in $S^1\times S^2$ or any connected sum $\#^k(S^1\times S^2)$, viewed as the contact boundary of the Weinstein manifold obtained…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Tobias Ekholm , Lenhard Ng

In this paper we construct complex contact structures on $\mathbb{C}^{2n+1}$ for any $n\ge 1$ with the property that every holomorphic Legendrian map $\mathbb{C}\to \mathbb{C}^{2n+1}$ is constant. In particular, these contact structures are…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Franc Forstneric

This paper is an overview of the idea of using contact geometry to construct invariants of immersions and embeddings. In particular, it discusses how to associate a contact manifold to any manifold and a Legendrian submanifold to an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias Ekholm , John B. Etnyre

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

In this paper, we determine the group of contact transformations modulo contact isotopies for Legendrian circle bundles over closed surfaces of nonpositive Euler characteristic. These results extend and correct those presented by the first…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Emmanuel Giroux , Patrick Massot

We construct new unbounded invariant distances on the universal cover of certain Legendrian isotopy classes. This is the first instance where unboundedness of an invariant distance is obtained without assuming the existence of a positive…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Pierre-Alexandre Arlove

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

Real Legendrian subvarieties are classical objects of differential geometry and classical mechanics and they have been studied since antiquity. However, complex Legendrian subvarieties are much more rigid and have more exceptional…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-16 Jarosław Buczyński

A topology is introduced on spaces of Legendrian submanifolds and groups of contactomorphisms. The definition is motivated by the Alexandrov topology in Lorentz geometry.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Vladimir Chernov , Stefan Nemirovski

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 use monopole Floer homology for sutured manifolds to construct invariants of Legendrian knots in a contact 3-manifold. These invariants assign to a knot K in Y elements of the monopole knot homology KHM(-Y,K), and they strongly resemble…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Steven Sivek

We use the Ozsv\'ath-Szab\'o contact invariants to distinguish between tight contact structures obtained by Legendrian surgeries on stabilized Legendrian links in tight contact 3-manifolds. We also discuss the implication of our result on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hao Wu

We give a quantitative refinement of the invariance of the Legendrian contact homology algebra in general contact manifolds. We show that in this general case, the Lagrangian cobordism trace of a Legendrian isotopy defines a DGA stable tame…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell , Michael G. Sullivan

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