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We study certain linear representations of the knot group that induce augmentations of knot contact homology. This perspective on augmentations enhances our understanding of the relationship between the augmentation polynomial and the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-08-28 Christopher Cornwell

This is the second in a sequence of papers in which we construct Chekanov-Eliashberg algebras for Legendrians in circle-fibered contact manifolds and study the associated augmentation varieties. In this part, we first define the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Kenneth Blakey , Soham Chanda , Yuhan Sun , Chris T. Woodward

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

Using the combinatorial approach to knot Floer homology, we define an invariant for Legendrian knots in the three-sphere, which takes values in link Floer homology. This invariant can be used to also construct an invariant of transverse…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Peter Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo , Dylan Thurston

Given a Legendrian knot in $(\mathbb{R}^3, \ker(dz-ydx))$ one can assign a combinatorial invariants called ruling polynomials. These invariants have been shown to recover not only a (normalized) count of augmentations but are also closely…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Justin Murray

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

In a recent work of I. Dynnikov and M. Prasolov a new method of comparing Legendrian knots with nontrivial symmetry group is proposed. Using this method we confirm conjectures of Ng and Chongchitmate about Legendrian knots in topological…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Maxim Prasolov , Vladimir Shastin

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 construct an enhanced version of knot contact homology, and show that we can deduce from it the group ring of the knot group together with the peripheral subgroup. In particular, it completely determines a knot up to smooth isotopy. The…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Tobias Ekholm , Lenhard Ng , Vivek Shende

The problem of classification of Legendrian knots (links) up to isotopy in the class of Legendrian embeddings (Legendrian isotopy) naturally leads to the following two subproblems. The first of them is: which combinations of the three…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Yuri Chekanov

We establish new examples of augmentations of Legendrian twist knots that cannot be induced by orientable Lagrangian fillings. To do so, we use a version of the Seidel-Ekholm-Dimitroglou Rizell isomorphism with local coefficients to show…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Honghao Gao , Dan Rutherford

Knot contact homology studies symplectic and contact geometric properties of conormals of knots in 3-manifolds using holomorphic curve techniques. It has connections to both mathematical and physical theories. On the mathematical side, we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-20 Tobias Ekholm

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

Let $\Lambda$ be a Legendrian in the jet space of some manifold $X$. To a generating family presentation of $\Lambda$, we associate a constructible sheaf on $X \times \mathbb{R}$ whose singular support at infinity is $\Lambda$, and such…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Vivek Shende

Differential graded algebra invariants are constructed for Legendrian links in the 1-jet space of the circle. In parallel to the theory for R^3, Poincare-Chekanov polynomials and characteristic algebras can be associated to such links. The…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lenhard Ng , Lisa Traynor

We consider Legendrian links and tangles in $J^1S^1$ and $J^1[0,1]$ equipped with Morse complex families over a field $\mathbb{F}$ and classify them up to Legendrian cobordism. When the coefficient field is $\mathbb{F}_2$ this provides a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Yu Pan , Dan Rutherford

In this article, we explore a polynomial invariant for Legendrian knots which is a natural extension of Jones polynomial for (topological) knots. To this end, a new type of skein relation is introduced for the front projections of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Dheeraj Kulkarni , Monika Yadav

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 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

Given a knot, we ask how its Khovanov and Khovanov-Rozansky homologies change under the operation of introducing twists in a pair of strands. We obtain long exact sequences in homology and further algebraic structure which is then used to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-08-01 Andrew Lobb