Nonfillable Legendrian knots in the 3-sphere (Q1743516)

If a Legendrian knot \(\Lambda\) in the standard contact 3-sphere bounds an exact orientable Lagrangian surface \(\Sigma\) in the standard symplectic 4-ball, then the genus of \(\Lambda\) is equal to the slice genus of the smooth knot underlying \(\Lambda\). In [Algebr. Geom. Topol. 10, No. 1, 63--85 (2010; Zbl 1203.57010)], \textit{B. Chantraine} showed that the rotation number of \(\Lambda\) is zero as well as the sum of the Thurston-Bennequin numbers of \(\Lambda\) and the Euler characteristic of \(\Sigma\). In [Prog. Math. 296, 109--145 (2012; Zbl 1254.57024)], \textit{T. Ekholm} showed that the linearized contact homology of \(\Lambda\) with respect to the augmentation induced by \(\Sigma\) is isomorphic to the singular homology of \(\Lambda\). In [J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 18, No. 11, 2627--2689 (2016; Zbl 1357.57044)], \textit{T. Ekholm, K. Honda}, and \textit{T. Kálmán} asked if every augmentation for which Seidel's isomorphism holds is induced by a Lagrangian filling. In this paper, the author gives a negative answer to this question by considering the family of Legendrian knots \(\{\Lambda_{p,q,r,s}\}\) with \(p\equiv q\equiv r\equiv s(\text{mod } 2)\). The rotation and Thurston-Bennequin numbers of \(\Lambda_{p,q,r,s}\) are \(0\) and \(5\), respectively. This gives a lower bound of \(3\) on the slice genus. On the other hand, the Seifert surface the author obtained from this projection has genus \(3\). Hence, both the slice genus and the Seifert genus are \(3\). The author proves that the Chekanov-Eliashberg dg-algebra of \(\Lambda_{p,p,p+1,p+1}\) admits an augmentation which is not induced by any exact orientable Lagrangian filling, although the corresponding linearized contact homology is isomorphic to the homology of a surface of genus \(3\) with one boundary component.