The paper examines conditions for contact surgeries on rational homology 3-spheres.
problem Conditions for contact surgeries on rational homology 3-spheres.
method Analyzes sufficient conditions for contact surgeries using Legendrian knots and links.
result Provides sufficient conditions for surgeries to have vanishing contact invariants or to be overtwisted.
Study confirms contact cosmetic surgery for most knots, with exceptions.
problem Determining contact cosmetic surgeries for Legendrian knots.
method Analyzing Legendrian knots, including unknots, and using contact surgery theory.
result Some Legendrian unknots have unique contact surgeries without a cosmetic pair.
Proposes a contact dynamics framework using generalized geometries.
problem Contact dynamics and related geometries.
method Generalizes symplectic and Morse families to contact framework.
result Establishes contact Hamiltonian and Lagrangian Dynamics as Legendrian submanifolds.
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…
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.
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.
In this paper, we study contact surgeries along Legendrian links in the standard contact 3-sphere. On one hand, we use algebraic methods to prove the vanishing of the contact Ozsváth-Szabó invariant for contact (+1)-surgery along certain Legendrian two-component links. The main tool is a link surgery formula for Heeg…
Study cone structures on contact manifolds to understand their geometric properties.
problem Characterize cone structures on holomorphic contact manifolds.
method Characterize subadjoint varieties among Legendrian submanifolds in terms of contact prolongations.
result Holomorphic horizontal splitting of the canonical distribution on contact G-structures.
Extends LOSS invariant naturality to positive contact surgeries.
problem Naturality of LOSS invariant under positive contact surgeries.
method Proves naturality of LOSS invariant for Legendrian knots under positive integer contact surgeries.
result Contact invariant of +n surgery depends only on classical invariants of S.
We use the Ozsváth-Szabó contact invariants to distinguish between tight contact structures obtained by Legendrian surgeries on stabilized Legendrian links in tight contact 3-manifolds. We also discuss the implication of our result on the tight contact structures on the Brieskon homology spheres −Σ(2,3,6n−1).
Study extends contact cosmetic surgeries to non-trivial Legendrian knots in L-spaces.
problem Contact cosmetic surgeries for Legendrian knots in L-spaces.
method Adapting techniques from S3 to L-spaces, incorporating Heegaard Floer theory constraints.
result Contact cosmetic surgery conjecture holds for non-trivial Legendrian knots, except for Lagrangian slice knots.
Classifies convex disks with Legendrian boundary in overtwisted contact 3-manifolds.
problem Classifying convex disks with Legendrian boundary in overtwisted contact 3-manifolds.
method Contact isotopy classification, h-principle, fundamental groups, contact mapping class group.
result Establishes an h-principle for convex disks with Legendrian boundary in overtwisted contact 3-manifolds.
New surgeries on knots preserve contact structures.
problem Understanding how surgeries on Legendrian knots affect their contact structures.
method Analyzing surgeries on specific types of knots (twist and two-bridge knots) and proving distinct contact structures for certain surgeries.
result Negative rational surgeries on certain Legendrian knots yield distinct contact 3-manifolds.
In this note, we classify Stein fillings of an infinite family of contact 3-manifolds up to diffeomorphism. Some contact 3-manifolds in this family can be obtained by Legendrian surgeries on (S3,ξstd) along certain Legendrian 2-bridge knots. We also classify Stein fillings, up to symplectic deformation, of an inf…
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.
Upper bounds for Legendrian links in tight contact 3-manifolds.
problem Bounding the complexity of Legendrian links in tight contact 3-manifolds.
method Constructing exact Lagrangian cobordisms and defining minimal Lagrangian genus.
result Established upper bounds for Legendrian links with a common rotation number.
Contact round surgeries on (S3,ξst) help in constructing and understanding contact 3-manifolds.
problem Constructing contact 3-manifolds using Legendrian surgeries.
method Introducing contact round surgeries of indices 1 and 2, and associating them with surgery diagrams.
result Every closed connected contact 3-manifold can be obtained by a sequence of contact round surgeries on Legendrian knots in (S3,ξst). Torsion found in knot homology, challenging augmentation theories.
problem Torsion in linearized contact homology for Legendrian knots.
method Examples of Legendrian knots with non-trivial homology over Z.
result Augmentations not induced by exact fillings, even mod 2.
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.
Contact surgeries yield algebraically overtwisted manifolds.
problem Understanding algebraically overtwisted contact manifolds through surgeries.
method Contact (+1)-surgeries on Legendrian spheres in flexibly fillable contact manifolds. result Yielding algebraically overtwisted manifolds when the Legendrian's homology class is not annihilated.
Contact homology for Legendrian submanifolds in standard contact (2n+1)-space is rigorously defined using moduli spaces of holomorphic disks with Lagrangian boundary conditions in complex n-space. It provides new invariants of Legendrian isotopy. Using these invariants the theory of Legendrian isotopy is shown to b…
We show that there exists a Legendrian knot with maximal Thurston-Bennequin invariant whose contact homology is trivial. We also provide another Legendrian knot which has the same knot type and classical invariants but nonvanishing contact homology.
Constructs non-unital monoidal category of contact manifolds and Legendrian correspondence calculus
problem Constructing a non-unital monoidal category of contact manifolds without contact forms
method Developing contact topology without contact forms and defining the star product
result Proving the associativity of the star product and the pentagon axiom
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.
We give a procedure to ``average'' canonically C1-close Legendrian submanifolds of contact manifolds. As a corollary we obtain that, whenever a compact group action leaves a Legendrian submanifold almost invariant, there is an invariant Legendrian submanifold nearby.
Combinatorial method computes Legendrian knot invariant.
problem Computing the Heegaard Floer contact invariant for Legendrian knots.
method Combining Plamenevskaya's combinatorial description with Heegaard Floer theory.
result Hat version of LOSS invariant can be computed combinatorially.
Proves h-principle for loose Legendrian embeddings in contact topology.
problem Existence of non-loose Legendrian embeddings.
method h-principle from microlocal sheaf theory.
result Existence of non-loose Legendrian embeddings.
Study contact structures on lens spaces, classifying rational knots.
problem Classify rational knots in lens spaces.
method One-parametric convex surface theory to classify Legendrian and transverse rational unknots.
result Determine the contact mapping class group of lens spaces.
Study contact instantons and Legendrian links, proving energy inequalities.
problem Estimating Reeb-untangling energy of Legendrian submanifolds.
method Develop contact Hamiltonian geometry, introduce tame contact manifolds, construct moduli spaces, prove convergence results.
result Self Reeb-untangling energy of compact Legendrian submanifolds is greater than period gap.
Algorithm converts curves on ribbon surfaces to contact surgery diagrams.
problem Legendrian realization of curves on ribbon surfaces.
method Explicit algorithm to Legendrian realize homologically nontrivial curves.
result Any two Legendrian realizations of the same curve are Legendrian isotopic.
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.
We define a differential graded algebra for Legendrian graphs and tangles in the standard contact Euclidean three space. This invariant is defined combinatorially by using ideas from Legendrian contact homology. The construction is distinguished from other versions of Legendrian contact algebra by the vertices of Legen…
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.
New knots are found to be non-simple in Legendrian contact geometry.
problem Identifying non-simple Legendrian knots in contact geometry.
method Utilized knot Floer homology and the distinguished surgery triangle.
result Whitehead doubles of the trefoil are Legendrian non-simple.
We construct an open book decomposition compatible with a contact structure given by a rational contact surgery on a Legendrian link in the standard contact S3. As an application we show that some rational contact surgeries on certain Legendrian knots induce overtwisted contact structures.
Study contact invariants using Floer homology to understand knots.
problem Understanding contact invariants of knots through surgeries.
method Used Heegaard Floer based contact invariants, sutured Floer homology, and limit constructions.
result Established relations between contact invariants of knots through surgeries.
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.
The paper deals with topologically trivial Legendrian knots in tight and overtwisted contact 3-manifolds. The first part contains a thorough exposition of the proof of the classification of topologically trivial Legendrian knots (i.e. Legendrian knots bounding embedded 2-disks) in tight contact 3-manifolds. This part w…
This paper is an overview of the idea of using contact geometry to construct invariants of immersions and embeddings. In particular, it discusses how to associate a contact manifold to any manifold and a Legendrian submanifold to an embedding or immersion. We then discuss recent work that creates invariants of immersio…
We regard a contact metric manifold whose Reeb vector field belongs to the (κ,μ)-nullity distribution as a bi-Legendrian manifold and we study its canonical bi-Legendrian structure. Then we characterize contact metric (κ,μ)-spaces in terms of a canonical connection which can be naturally defined on them.
A contact stationary Legendrian submanifold of S2n+1 is a Legendrian submanifold whose volume is stationary under contact deformations. The simplest contact stationary Legendrian submanifold (actually minimal and Legendrian) is the real, equatorial n-sphere S0. This paper develops a method for constructing co…
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.
Classifies Legendrian and transverse torus knots in S3.
problem Classifying Legendrian and transverse torus knots in S3. method Complete coarse classification using Legendrian and transverse properties.
result Complete classification of torus knots in contact structures on S3. We examine the Legendrian analogue of the topological satellite construction for knots, and deduce some results for specific Legendrian knots and links in standard contact three-space and the solid torus. In particular, we show that the Chekanov-Eliashberg contact homology invariants of Legendrian Whitehead doubles of …
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.
We provide the first example of a Legendrian knot with nonvanishing contact homology whose Thurston-Bennequin invariant is not maximal.
The main result of this paper is that, off of a `fundamental class' in degree 1, the linearized Legendrian contact homology obeys a version of Poincare duality between homology groups in degrees k and -k. Not only does the result itself simplify calculations, but its proof also establishes a framework for analyzing coh…
We prove that loose Legendrian knots in a rational homology contact 3-sphere, satisfying some additional hypothesis, are Legendrian isotopic if and only if they have the same classical invariants. The proof requires a result of Dymara on loose Legendrian knots and Eliashberg's classification of overtwisted contact stru…