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We study an $A_\infty$ category associated to Legendrian links in $\mathbb{R}^3$ whose objects are $n$-dimensional representations of the Chekanov-Eliashberg differential graded algebra of the link. This representation category generalizes…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Baptiste Chantraine , Lenhard Ng , Steven Sivek

This work applies the ideas of persistent homology to the problem of distinguishing Legendrian knots. We develop a persistent version of Legendrian contact homology by filtering the Chekanov-Eliashberg DGA using the action (height)…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Maya Basu , Austin Christian , Ethan Clayton , Daniel Irvine , Fredrick Mooers , Weizhe Shen

We show that the set of augmentations of the Chekanov-Eliashberg algebra of a Legendrian link underlies the structure of a unital A-infinity category. This differs from the non-unital category constructed in [BC], but is related to it in…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Lenhard Ng , Dan Rutherford , Vivek Shende , Steven Sivek , Eric Zaslow

Sivek proves a "van Kampen" decomposition theorem for the combinatorial Legendrian contact algebra (also known as the Chekanov-Eliashberg algebra) of knots in standard contact $\R^3$ . We prove an analogous result for the holomorphic curve…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-01 John G. Harper , Michael G. Sullivan

In this paper, we consider exact Lagrangian cobordisms and the map they induce on the Chekanov-Eliashberg DGAs of their Legendrian ends as defined by Ekholm, Honda, and Kalman. Specifically, we show how to adapt this map to linearizations…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Sierra Knavel , Thomas Rodewald

We show that a link in an open book can be realized as a strongly quasipositive braid if and only if it bounds a Legendrian ribbon with respect to the associated contact structure. This generalizes a result due to Baader and Ishikawa for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Kyle Hayden

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

We use some Lie group theory and Budney's unitarization of the Lawrence-Krammer representation, to prove that for generic parameters of definite form the image of the representation (also on certain types of subgroups) is dense in the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-06-30 Alexander Stoimenow

For any Legendrian knot or link in $\mathbb{R}^3$, we construct an $L_\infty$ algebra that can be viewed as an extension of the Chekanov-Eliashberg differential graded algebra. The $L_\infty$ structure incorporates information from rational…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Lenhard Ng

We apply the barcodes of persistent homology theory to the Chekanov-Eliashberg algebra of a Legendrian submanifold to deduce displacement energy bounds for arbitrary Legendrians. We do not require the full Chekanov-Eliashberg algebra to…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell , Michael G. Sullivan

A correspondence is studied by H. Matsuda between front projections of Legendrian links in the standard contact structure for 3-space and rectangular diagrams. In this paper, we introduce braided rectangular diagrams, and study a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-08-20 Hiroshi Matsuda , William W. Menasco

This paper explores the relationship between the existence of an exact embedded Lagrangian filling for a Legendrian knot in the standard contact $\rr^3$ and the hierarchy of positive, strongly quasi-positive, and quasi-positive knots. On…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Kyle Hayden , Joshua M. Sabloff

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

We construct positive loops of Legendrian submanifolds in several instances. In particular, we partially recover G. Liu's result stating that any loose Legendrian admits a positive loop, under some mild topological assumptions on the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-10 Dishant Pancholi , José Luis Pérez , Francisco Presas

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, 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

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

Given a Legendrian knot $\Lambda \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ and a vertical line dividing the front projection of $\Lambda$ into two halves, we construct a differential graded algebra associated to each half-knot. We then show that one may obtain…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Maciej Wlodek

The Chekanov-Eliashberg differential graded algebra of a Legendrian knot L is a rich source of Legendrian knot invariants, as is the theory of generating families. The set P(L) of homology groups of augmentations of the Chekanov-Eliashberg…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Emily E. Casey , Michael B. Henry

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