Grid diagrams and Legendrian lens space links (Q2655955)

Grid diagrams for link in \(S^3\) were introduced by \textit{H. Brunn} [Verh. d. intern. Math.-Congr. 1, 256--259 (1897; JFM 29.0423.02)]. These have generated much interest in recent years due to work by several authors utilizing these diagrams to study contact topology and combinatorial Heegaard Floer homology. The notion of a grid diagram was extended to a definition for links in lens spaces in [\textit{K. L. Baker, J. E. Grigsby} and \textit{M. Hedden}, Int. Math. Res. Not. 2008, Article ID rnn024, 39 p. (2008; Zbl 1168.57009)]. In the paper reviewed here, the authors use the notion of a grid diagram for a link in a lens space to study the contact geometry of lens spaces. Specifically, the authors show that the grid diagram for a link in a lens space \(L\) corresponds to a unique Legendrian representative of the mirror of the link with respect to a canonical co-oriented contact structure on \(-L\). The authors hope that this work will lead to a more systematic study of Legendrian links in arbitrary three-manifolds; that the work may be used to detect transversely non-simple knots in lens spaces generalizing the results of [\textit{L. Ng, P. Ozsváth} and \textit{D. Thurston}, J. Symplectic Geom. 6, No.~4, 461--490 (2008; Zbl 1173.57007)] for knots in \(S^3\); and that an extension of the work of \textit{H. Matsuda} in [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 134, No.~12, 3697--3702 (2006; Zbl 1110.57005)] will shed light on the Berge Conjecture.