Generating function polynomials for Legendrian links

DOI10.2140/GT.2001.5.719MaRDI QIDQ1416617zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lisa Traynor

Publication date 15 December 2003

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0110229, https://eudml.org/doc/123208, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/gt/GTVol5/paper23.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

contact homologyContact topologygenerating functionsknot polynomialsLegendrian links

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: It is shown that, in the 1-jet space of the circle, the swapping and the flyping procedures, which produce topologically equivalent links, can produce nonequivalent legendrian links. Each component of the links considered is legendrian isotopic to the 1-jet of the 0-function, and thus cannot be distinguished by the classical rotation number or Thurston-Bennequin invariants. The links are distinguished by calculating invariant polynomials defined via homology groups associated to the links through the theory of generating functions. The many calculations of these generating function polynomials support the belief that these polynomials carry the same information as a refined version of Chekanov's first order polynomials which are defined via the theory of holomorphic curves.

Review text

In the paper under review it is shown that in the 1-jet space of the circle the swapping and the flyping procedures, which produce topologically equivalent links can produce nonequivalent Legendrian links. Each component of the links considered is Legendrian isotopic to the 1-jet of the 0-function and thus cannot be distinguished by the classical rotation number or Thurston-Bennequin invariants. The links are distinguished by computing the invariant polynomials defined via homology groups associated to the links through the theory of generating functions.

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