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Legendrian Products

Symplectic Geometry 2013-01-17 v1

Abstract

This paper introduces two constructions of Legendrian submanifolds, called the Legendrian product and spinning, and computes their classical invariants, the Thurston-Bennequin invariant and the Maslov class, in R^{2n+1}. These constructions take two Legendrians K,L and returns a product K x L, they generalize other previous constructions in contact topology, such as frontspinning and hypercube tori, and are equivalent in R^{2n+1}. Interestingly, this construction relies upon the explicit embeddings of K,L and not their Legendrian isotopy classes.

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@article{arxiv.1301.3700,
  title  = {Legendrian Products},
  author = {Peter Lambert-Cole},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.3700},
  year   = {2013}
}

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14 pages, 1 figure

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