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Conjectures about virtual Legendrian knots and links

Geometric Topology 2023-07-04 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We formulate conjectures generalizing some known results to the category of virtual Legendrian knots. This includes statements relating virtual Legendrian knots to ordinary Legendrian knots, non-existence of positive virtual Legendrian self isotopy for the class of the fiber of STMST^*M and the conjectural relation of virtual Legendrian isotopy to causality in generalized spacetimes. We prove the conjectures in the case of 22-dimensional MM and (2+1)(2+1)-dimensional spacetimes. We also formulate and prove the version of the Arnold's 44 cusp conjecture for virtual isotopies.

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@article{arxiv.2302.03607,
  title  = {Conjectures about virtual Legendrian knots and links},
  author = {Vladimir Chernov and Rustam Sadykov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.03607},
  year   = {2023}
}

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12 pages

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