Loose Legendrian and pseudo-Legendrian knots in 3-manifolds

DOI10.4310/JSG.2020.V18.N3.A2zbMATH Open1482.57018arXiv1405.5725OpenAlexW3046543892MaRDI QIDQ2216094FDOQ2216094

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 15 December 2020

Published in: The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove a complete classification theorem for loose Legendrian knots in an oriented 3-manifold, generalizing results of Dymara and Ding-Geiges. Our approach is to classify knots in a $3$-manifold $M$ that are transverse to a nowhere-zero vector field $V$ up to the corresponding isotopy relation. Such knots are called $V$-transverse. A framed isotopy class is simple if any two $V$-transverse knots in that class which are homotopic through $V$-transverse immersions are $V$-transverse isotopic. We show that all knot types in $M$ are simple if any one of the following three conditions hold: $1.$ $M$ is closed, irreducible and atoroidal; or $2.$ the Euler class of the $2$-bundle $V^{perp}$ orthogonal to $V$ is a torsion class, or $3.$ if $V$ is a coorienting vector field of a tight contact structure. Finally, we construct examples of pairs of homotopic knot types such that one is simple and one is not. As a consequence of the $h$-principle for Legendrian immersions, we also construct knot types which are not Legendrian simple.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5725

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zbMATH Keywords

contact structuresloose Legendrian knots\(h\)-principles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) Contact structures in 3 dimensions (57K33)

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