Expanded Legendrian knot atlas for 10-arc index knots.
problem Lack of Legendrian knot data for knots with high arc index.
method Created an atlas of Legendrian knots up to arc index 10.
result Legendrian knots of arc index 10 have been cataloged.
Study shows how lengths of geodesic arcs determine linking number of Legendrian knots.
problem Linking number of Legendrian knots on negatively curved surfaces.
method Analyzes Poincaré series on negatively curved surfaces.
result Explicit rational value of Poincaré series at 0 interprets linking number of Legendrian knots.
Legendrian arcs connect veering triangulations to Anosov flows.
problem Connecting veering triangulations to Anosov flows for study.
method Realizing edges as Legendrian arcs with a bicontact structure.
result Veering triangulations can be placed in steady position.
We present an atlas of Legendrian knots in standard contact three-space. This gives a conjectural Legendrian classification for all knots with arc index at most 9, including alternating knots through 7 crossings and nonalternating knots through 9 crossings. Our method involves a computer search of grid diagrams and app…
We define a new algebraic structure called Legendrian racks or racks with Legendrian structure, motivated by the front-projection Reidemeister moves for Legendrian knots. We provide examples of Legendrian racks and use these algebraic structures to define invariants of Legendrian knots with explicit computational examp…
Innovative rack theory applied to Legendrian links.
problem Classifying and distinguishing Legendrian links.
method Purely rack-theoretic approach, Legendrian Reidemeister moves, cusps, homogeneous representations, modules.
result Invariant distinguishes infinitely many Legendrian unknots and trefoils.
The study finds non-simple isotopy classes of links in 3-manifolds, including Legendrian and pseudo-Legendrian examples.
problem Characterizing isotopy classes of links in 3-manifolds, especially in contact structures.
method Developed theory of links transverse to a nowhere-zero vector field, constructing examples in both Legendrian and pseudo-Legendrian settings.
result Non-simple isotopy classes of links exist, including Legendrian and pseudo-Legendrian examples.
An elementary stabilization of a Legendrian link L in the spherical cotangent bundle ST∗M of a surface M is a surgery that results in attaching a handle to M along two discs away from the image in M of the projection of the link L. A virtual Legendrian isotopy is a composition of stabilizations, destabiliz…
The Legendrian product of two Legendrian knots, as defined by Lambert-Cole, is a Legendrian torus. We show that this Legendrian torus is a twist spun whenever one of the Legendrian knot components is sufficiently large. We then study examples of Legendrian products which are not Legendrian isotopic to twist spuns. In o…
In this paper, we formulate a new local move on virtual knot diagram, called arc shift move. Further, we extend it to another local move called region arc shift defined on a region of a virtual knot diagram. We establish that these arc shift and region arc shift moves are unknotting operations by showing that any virtu…
We investigate Legendrian graphs in (R3,ξstd). We extend the classical invariants, Thurston-Bennequin number and rotation number to Legendrian graphs. We prove that a graph can be Legendrian realized with all its cycles Legendrian unknots with tb=−1 and rot=0 if and only if it does not contain K4 as a mi…
4-Legendrian permutation racks can't distinguish knots but recover classical invariants.
problem Distinguishing Legendrian knots using permutation racks.
method Study of 4-Legendrian racks and their effectiveness.
result 4-Legendrian permutation racks cannot distinguish knots but recover classical invariants.
Classifies Legendrian torus and cable links, revealing symmetries and invariants.
problem Classifying Legendrian torus and cable links.
method Classification through Legendrian and transversal isotopies, symmetries analysis.
result First family of non-destabilizable links without maximal Thurston-Bennequin invariant.
The abstract discusses conjectures about virtual Legendrian knots and their relation to causality.
problem Understanding the relationship between virtual Legendrian knots and causality in spacetimes.
method Formulated conjectures and proved them in specific cases.
result Proved conjectures in 2D and (2+1)D spacetimes.
Legendrian Lavrentiev links are shown to be equivalent to smooth links.
problem Understanding equivalence of Legendrian and smooth links.
method Definition and analysis of Legendrian isotopies.
result Equivalence classes of Legendrian Lavrentiev links coincide with smooth links.
Associated to Legendrian links in the standard contact three-space, Ruling polynomials are Legendrian isotopy invariants, which also compute augmentation numbers, that is, the points-counting of augmentation varieties for Legendrian links (up to a normalized factor) \cite{HR15}. In this article, we generalize this pict…
Classifies exceptional Legendrian realizations of Hopf link connected sums.
problem Classifying exceptional Legendrian realizations of Hopf link connected sums.
method Complete coarse classification using Legendrian knot theory.
result First classification result about exceptional Legendrian representatives for Hopf link connected sums.
Study on unknotting twisted knots using arc shift and region arc shift moves.
problem Unknotting twisted knots and finding bounds for region arc shift number.
method Introduced arc shift move and region arc shift move for twisted knots.
result Found families of twisted knots with specific arc shift and region arc shift numbers.
In this paper we study Legendrian knots in the knot types of satellite knots. In particular, we classify Legendrian Whitehead patterns and learn a great deal about Legendrian braided patterns. We also show how the classification of Legendrian patterns can lead to a classification of the associated satellite knots if th…
Introduces a Cost function to measure Legendrian knot obstructions.
problem Measuring obstructions for Legendrian knot isotopies.
method Introduces a non-negative integer-valued Cost function.
result Cost function induces a metric on topologically isotopic Legendrian knots.
It is shown that the projection image of an oriented spatial arc to any oriented plane is approximated by a unique arc diagram (up to isomorphic arc diagrams) determined from the spatial arc and the projection. In a separated paper, the knotting probability of an arc diagram is defined as an invariant under isomorphic …
Study of cable links of uniformly thick knots, revealing new isotopy phenomena.
problem Understanding Legendrian isotopy in cable links of uniformly thick knots.
method Introduced new technique of Legendrian surgeries to classify Legendrian knots in negative cables of twist knots.
result Found new phenomena of stabilized Legendrian links that are smoothly isotopic but not Legendrian isotopic.
The Gronwall conjecture states that a planar 3-web of foliations which admits more than one distinct linearizations is locally equivalent to an algebraic web. We propose an analogue of the Gronwall conjecture for the 3-web of foliations by Legendrian curves in a contact three manifold. The Legendrian Gronwall conjectur…
The study of the Vassiliev invariants of Legendrian knots was started by D. Fuchs and S. Tabachnikov who showed that the groups of complex-valued Vassiliev invariants of Legendrian and of framed knots in the standard contact R3 are canonically isomorphic. Recently we constructed the first examples where Vassiliev in…
New distances defined on Legendrian spaces without positive loops.
problem Defining distances on Legendrian spaces without positive loops.
method Constructing unbounded invariant distances on Legendrian isotopy classes.
result Invariant distances on Legendrian isotopy classes are discrete.
The study constructs and shows isotopy of high-dimensional Legendrian spheres.
problem Understanding Legendrian spheres in contact manifolds of any dimension.
method Three Legendrian sphere constructions using open books and a doubling procedure.
result These constructions are isotopic to the Legendrian unknot.
Projection maps virtual Legendrian knots to classical ones.
problem Classifying virtual Legendrian knots.
method Developed a projection operation from virtual to classical Legendrian knots.
result Virtual crossing number equals classical crossing number.
Characterizes Legendrian knots in lens spaces.
problem Classifying Legendrian knots in lens spaces.
method Splitting lens spaces and using convex Heegaard decomposition.
result All Legendrian torus knots in universally tight lens spaces are classified.
Study of strongly invertible Legendrian links in contact 3-space.
problem Characterizing and understanding strongly invertible Legendrian links.
method Equivariant analogs of basic results for strongly invertible and Legendrian links.
result Existence of maximal equivariant Thurston-Bennequin number for strongly invertible links.
Persistent Legendrian contact homology distinguishes knots using height functional.
problem Distinguishing Legendrian knots in R3. method Persistent homology applied to Chekanov-Eliashberg DGA, with height functional.
result Strong Morse inequalities for persistent Legendrian contact homology.
In this paper Legendrian graphs in (R3,ξst) are considered modulo Legendrian isotopy and edge contraction. To a Legendrian graph we associate a (generalized) rectangular diagram --- a purely combinatorial object. Moves of rectangular diagrams are introduced so that equivalence classes of Legendr…
The problem of classification of Legendrian knots (links) up to isotopy in the class of Legendrian embeddings (Legendrian isotopy) naturally leads to the following two subproblems. The first of them is: which combinations of the three classical invariants can be realized by a Legendrian knot? (It is well-known that eac…
Study the spaces of Legendrian knots and links with maximal Thurston-Bennequin invariant.
problem Homotopy types of spaces of Legendrian knots and links with maximal Thurston-Bennequin invariant.
method Recursive formula and contractibility proofs for specific cases.
result Homotopy equivalence and contractibility results for spaces of Legendrian embeddings.
New algebra structure for Legendrian knots preserves contact homology invariants.
problem Constructing an L∞ algebra for Legendrian knots. method Combining rational Symplectic Field Theory and combinatorial methods.
result Invariant Poisson algebra of Legendrian links under isotopy.
NT probability measures knotting in 3D arc systems.
problem Measuring knotting in 3D arc systems.
method Transforming polygonal arcs into unique diagrams, generalizing NT probability.
result Properties of NT probability for 3D arc systems are shown.
The surgery unknotting number of a Legendrian link is defined as the minimal number of particular oriented surgeries that are required to convert the link into a Legendrian unknot. Lower bounds for the surgery unknotting number are given in terms of classical invariants of the Legendrian link. The surgery unknotting nu…
We give a combinatorial description of the Legendrian differential graded algebra associated to a Legendrian knot in PxR, where P is a punctured Riemann surface. As an application we show that for any integer k and any homology class h in H_1(PxR) there are k Legendrian knots all representing h which are pairwise smoot…
A rigidity theorem for smooth Legendrian self-shrinkers is proven.
problem Understanding the structure of Legendrian self-shrinkers.
method Estimating weighted volume to prove optimal volume growth.
result Rigidity theorem for entire smooth Legendrian self-shrinkers.
Computes bounds on mosaic number of Legendrian knots.
problem Determining the mosaic number of Legendrian knots.
method Using modified mosaic tiles and classical invariants, computed lower bounds and provided examples for sharpness.
result Sharp bounds on mosaic number of Legendrian knots in certain cases.
Non-trivialization probability of arc system in 3D space
problem Defining and generalizing the knotting probability of an arc diagram in 3D space
method Transforming polygonal arcs in 3D space into unique arc diagrams
result Introducing and generalizing the Non-Trivialization probability (NT probability) for arc systems in 3D space
Study on exact Lagrangian submanifolds in unit ball with Legendrian boundary.
problem Exact Lagrangian submanifolds with Legendrian boundary in unit ball.
method Uses Liouville form and boundary unique continuation for differential forms.
result Equatorial n-disk rigidity for compact exact Lagrangian self-similar submanifolds. Self-affine arcs without inner weak separation are parabolic segments.
problem Characterizing self-affine Jordan arcs without parabolic segments.
method Analyzing the weak separation property and proving implications for arc types.
result Self-affine Jordan arcs without parabolic segments are attractors of multizippers.
Study of Legendrian links using Floer theory and cluster varieties.
problem Understanding exact Lagrangian fillings of positive braid Legendrian links.
method Floer-theoretic approach and exact Lagrangian cobordisms.
result Proves that positive braid Legendrian links admit infinitely many exact Lagrangian fillings.
Study Legendrian surfaces using N-graphs and flag moduli.
problem Characterize and apply Legendrian surfaces in contact geometry.
method Develop diagrammatic calculus and algebraic-geometric characterization.
result Show applications in Lagrangian concordance, exact fillings, and rational point counts.
New method confirms conjectures about specific Legendrian knots.
problem Classifying Legendrian knots of specific topological types.
method New method of comparing Legendrian knots with nontrivial symmetry group.
result Conjectures about specific Legendrian knots are confirmed.
New integer-valued functions for Legendrian knots.
problem Understanding Legendrian knots better.
method Using Legendrian fronts to derive integer-valued linear functions.
result Introduced new invariants similar to Arnold's basic invariant.
The study of smoothing arcs and curves on surfaces, proving tautness and arc length spectrum properties.
problem Analyzing the geometric and combinatorial effects of smoothing intersections in arcs or curves.
method Geometric and combinatorial analysis, proving tautness and arc length spectrum properties.
result Shortest arcs with self-intersections have exactly or at most one more self-intersection than the self-intersection number.
In contrast with what happens for Legendrian embeddings, there always exist positive loops of Legendrian immersions.