Classical invariants of Legendrian knots in the 3-dimensional torus

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2015.02.006zbMATH Open1310.57029arXiv1404.7732OpenAlexW2036980794MaRDI QIDQ2017860FDOQ2017860

Authors: Fábio S. Souza, Paul A. Schweitzer 

Publication date: 23 March 2015

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

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.

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

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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)

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• Classification of overtwisted contact structures on 3-manifolds
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• Knots
• Legendrian and transversal knots
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• Rational Seifert surfaces in Seifert fibered spaces
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• Rotation numbers and the Euler class in open books
• Linear Legendrian curves in $T^3$

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