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We study Legendrian singular links up to contact isotopy. Using a special property of the singular points, we define the singular connected sum of Legendrian singular links. This concept is a generalization of the connected sum and can be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-11 Byung Hee An , Youngjin Bae , Seonhwa Kim

We introduce a notion of cardinality for the augmentation category associated to a Legendrian knot or link in standard contact R^3. This `homotopy cardinality' is an invariant of the category and allows for a weighted count of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Lenhard Ng , Dan Rutherford , Vivek Shende , Steven Sivek

The conormal lift of a link $K$ in $\R^3$ is a Legendrian submanifold $\Lambda_K$ in the unit cotangent bundle $U^* \R^3$ of $\R^3$ with contact structure equal to the kernel of the Liouville form. Knot contact homology, a topological link…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Tobias Ekholm , John Etnyre , Lenhard Ng , Michael Sullivan

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

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

This is an overview paper that describes Eliashberg's Legendrian surgery approach to wrapped Floer cohomology and use it to derive the basic relations between various holomorphic curve theories with additional algebraic constructions. We…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Tobias Ekholm

Legendrian contact homology (LCH) and its associated differential graded algebra are powerful non-classical invariants of Legendrian knots. Linearization makes the LCH computationally tractable at the expense of discarding nonlinear (and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-06 Gokhan Civan , John B. Etnyre , Paul Koprowski , Joshua M. Sabloff , Alden Walker

We establish an upper bound for the Thurston-Bennequin number of a Legendrian link using the Khovanov homology of the underlying topological link. This bound is sharp in particular for all alternating links, and knots with nine or fewer…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Lenhard Ng

For a Legendrian link $\Lambda \subset J^1M$ with $M = \mathbb{R}$ or $S^1$, immersed exact Lagrangian fillings $L \subset \mbox{Symp}(J^1M) \cong T^*(\mathbb{R}_{>0} \times M)$ of $\Lambda$ can be lifted to conical Legendrian fillings…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Yu Pan , Dan Rutherford

We show that the Legendrian lift of an exact, displaceable Lagrangian has vanishing Shelukhin-Chekanov-Hofer pseudo-metric by lifting an argument due to Sikorav to the contactization. In particular, this proves the existence of such…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Lukas Nakamura

This is the third in a series 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 prove that for connected…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Kenneth Blakey , Soham Chanda , Yuhan Sun , Chris T. Woodward

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

We relate the version of rational Symplectic Field Theory for exact Lagrangian cobordisms introduced in [5] with linearized Legendrian contact homology. More precisely, if $L\subset X$ is an exact Lagrangian submanifold of an exact…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-26 Tobias Ekholm

Many interesting spaces --- including all positroid strata and wild character varieties --- are moduli of constructible sheaves on a surface with microsupport in a Legendrian link. We show that the existence of cluster structures on these…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Vivek Shende , David Treumann , Harold Williams , Eric Zaslow

In this manuscript we study braid varieties, a class of affine algebraic varieties associated to positive braids. Several geometric constructions are presented, including certain torus actions on braid varieties and holomorphic symplectic…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-12 Roger Casals , Eugene Gorsky , Mikhail Gorsky , José Simental

We characterise positive braid links with positive Seifert form via a finite number of forbidden minors. From this we deduce a one-to-one correspondence between prime positive braid links with positive Seifert form and simply laced Dynkin…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-11-21 Sebastian Baader

We study Legendrian embeddings of a compact Legendrian submanifold $L$ sitting in a closed contact manifold $(M,\xi)$ whose contact structure is supported by a (contact) open book $\mathcal{OB}$ on $M$. We prove that if $\mathcal{OB}$ has…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Selman Akbulut , M. Firat Arikan

A generalised Legendrian rack is a rack equipped with a Legendrian structure, which is a pair of maps encoding the information of Legendrian Reidemeister moves together with up and down cusps in the front diagram of an oriented Legendrian…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Biswadeep Karmakar , Deepanshi Saraf , Mahender Singh

To a Legendrian knot, one can associate an $\mathcal{A}_{\infty}$ category, the augmentation category. An exact Lagrangian cobordism between two Legendrian knots gives a functor of the augmentation categories of the two knots. We study the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Yu Pan

Virtual braids are a combinatorial generalization of braids. We present abstract braids as equivalence classes of braid diagrams on a surface, joining two distinguished boundary components. They are identified up to isotopy, compatibility,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Bruno Aaron Cisneros de La Cruz