English

Negative contact surgery on Legendrian non-simple knots

Geometric Topology 2026-03-31 v2

Abstract

We prove that for any pair of Legendrian representatives of the Chekanov-Eliashberg twist knots with different LOSS invariants, any negative rational contact rr-surgery with r1r\neq -1 always gives rise to different contact 3-manifolds distinguished by their contact invariants. This gives the first examples of pairs of Legendrian knots with the same classical invariants but distinct contact rr-surgeries for all negative rational number rr. We also generalize the statement from the twist knots to a certain families of two-bridge knots.

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@article{arxiv.2405.00855,
  title  = {Negative contact surgery on Legendrian non-simple knots},
  author = {Shunyu Wan and Hugo Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.00855},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

v2: revised according to the comments of the referee; this is the final version to appear in Journal of Symplectic Geometry

R2 v1 2026-06-28T16:13:17.762Z