Legendrian knots and monopoles

DOI10.2140/AGT.2006.6.1MaRDI QIDQ2492022zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yann Rollin, T. S. Mrowka

Publication date 1 June 2006

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410559, https://eudml.org/doc/116740, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/agt/agtcontents6.html

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

Abstract: We prove a generalization of Bennequin's inequality for Legendrian knots in a 3-dimensional contact manifold (Y,xi), under the assumption that Y is the boundary of a 4-dimensional manifold M and the version of Seiberg-Witten invariants introduced by Kronheimer and Mrowka [Invent. Math. 130 (1997) 209-255] is nonvanishing. The proof requires an excision result for Seiberg-Witten moduli spaces; then the Bennequin inequality becomes a special case of the adjunction inequality for surfaces lying inside M.

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