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 -surgery with 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 -surgeries for all negative rational number . We also generalize the statement from the twist knots to a certain families of two-bridge knots.
Cite
@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