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In this article we define intersection Floer homology for exact Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds in the contactisation of a Liouville manifold, provided that the Chekanov-Eliashberg algebras of the negative ends of the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Baptiste Chantraine , Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell , Paolo Ghiggini , Roman Golovko

For a closed connected manifold N, we establish the existence of geometric structures on various subgroups of the contactomorphism group of the standard contact jet space J^1N, as well as on the group of contactomorphisms of the standard…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-28 Frol Zapolsky

We use parameterized Morse theory on the pages of an open book decomposition to efficiently encode the contact topology in terms of a labelled graph on a disjoint union of tori (one per binding component). This construction allows us to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-24 David T. Gay , Joan E. Licata

We show that if the image of a Legendrian submanifold under a contact homeomorphism (i.e. a homeomorphism that is a $C^0$-limit of contactomorphisms) is smooth then it is Legendrian, assuming only positive local lower bounds on the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Michael Usher

This paper introduces techniques for computing a variety of numerical invariants associated to a Legendrian knot in a contact manifold presented by an open book with a Morse structure. Such a Legendrian knot admits a front projection to the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Sebastian Durst , Marc Kegel , Joan E. Licata

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

We show how to orient moduli spaces of holomorphic disks with boundary on an exact Lagrangian immersion of a spin manifold into complex n-space in a coherent manner. This allows us to lift the coefficients of the contact homology of…

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

In case of the heat flow on the free loop space of a closed Riemannian manifold non-triviality of Morse homology for semi-flows is established by constructing a natural isomorphism to singular homology of the loop space. The construction is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-25 Joa Weber

We show that a null-homologous transverse knot K in the complement of an overtwisted disk in a contact 3-manifold is the boundary of a Legendrian ribbon if and only if it possesses a Seifert surface S such that the self-linking number of K…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-08-09 S. Baader , K. Cieliebak , T. Vogel

Recently, there are a great deal of work done which connects the Legendrian isotopic problem with contact invariants. The isotopic problem of Legendre curve in a contact 3-manifold was studies via the Legendrian curve shortening flow which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Shu-Cheng Chang , Yingbo Han , Chin-Tung Wu

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

We define a differential graded algebra associated to Legendrian knots in Seifert fibered spaces with transverse contact structures. This construction is distinguished from other combinatorial realizations of contact homology invariants by…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-14 Joan E. Licata , Joshua M. Sabloff

Let L be a Legendrian knot in R^3 with the standard contact structure. In [10], a map was constructed from equivalence classes of Morse complex sequences for L, which are combinatorial objects motivated by generating families, to homotopy…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Michael B. Henry , Dan Rutherford

In this paper we construct an $\mathcal{A}_\infty$-category associated to a Legendrian submanifold of jet spaces. Objects of the category are augmentations of the Chekanov algebra $\mathcal{A}(\Lambda)$ and the homology of the morphism…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Frédéric Bourgeois , Baptiste Chantraine

The main result of this paper is that, off of a `fundamental class' in degree 1, the linearized Legendrian contact homology obeys a version of Poincare duality between homology groups in degrees k and -k. Not only does the result itself…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-02 Joshua M Sabloff

We propose a definition of a homology of a one-dimensional foliation defined by a non-singular Morse-Smale flow. We also show the calculation of the homology of such a foliation which is naturally associated with Seifert fibration.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Masato Akizawa , Ryosuke Furuta , Shigeaki Miyoshi

Linearized Legendrian contact homology (LCH) and bilinearized LCH are important homological invariants for Legendrian submanifolds in contact geometry. For legendrian knots in $\mathbb{R}^3$, very little was previously known about the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Frédéric Bourgeois , Salammbo Connolly

For a smooth compact submanifold $K$ of a Riemannian manifold $Q$, its unit conormal bundle $\Lambda_K$ is a Legendrian submanifold of the unit cotangent bundle of $Q$ with a canonical contact structure. Using pseudo-holomorphic curve…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Yukihiro Okamoto

Positive loops of Legendrian embeddings are examined from the point of view of Floer homology of Lagrangian cobordisms. This leads to new obstructions to the existence of a positive loop containing a given Legendrian, expressed in terms of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-11 Baptiste Chantraine , Vincent Colin , Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell

We construct a Legendrian 2-torus in the 1-jet space of $S^1\times\R$ (or of $\R^2$) from a loop of Legendrian knots in the 1-jet space of $\R$. The differential graded algebra (DGA) for the Legendrian contact homology of the torus is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-25 Tobias Ekholm , Tamas Kalman