Classical invariants of Legendrian knots in the 3-dimensional torus

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2015.02.006MaRDI QIDQ2017860zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fábio S. Souza, Paul A. Schweitzer

Publication date 23 March 2015

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7732

zbMATH Keywords

Legendrian knotscontact structuresSeifert surfacesThurston-Bennequin invariant3-torus \(T^3\)Maslov invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: All knots in $R^3$ possess Seifert surfaces, and so the classical Thurston-Bennequin and rotation (or Maslov) invariants for Legendrian knots in a contact structure on $R^3$ can be defined. The definitions extend easily to null-homologous knots in any $3$-manifold $M$ endowed with a contact structure $xi$. We generalize the definition of Seifert surfaces and use them to define these invariants for all Legendrian knots, including those that are not null-homologous, in a contact structure on the $3$-torus $T^3$. We show how to compute the Thurston-Bennequin and rotation invariants in a tight oriented contact structure on $T^3$ using projections.

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