Legendrian and transverse cables of positive torus knots

DOI10.2140/GT.2012.16.1639zbMATH Open1282.53064arXiv1104.0550OpenAlexW1994449808MaRDI QIDQ441128FDOQ441128

Bülent Tosun, John B. Etnyre, Douglas J. Lafountain

Publication date: 20 August 2012

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we classify Legendrian and transverse knots in the knot types obtained from positive torus knots by cabling. This classification allows us to demonstrate several new phenomena. Specifically, we show there are knot types that have non-destabilizable Legendrian representatives whose Thurston-Bennequin invariant is arbitrarily far from maximal. We also exhibit Legendrian knots requiring arbitrarily many stabilizations before they become Legendrian isotopic. Similar new phenomena are observed for transverse knots. To achieve these results we define and study "partially thickenable" tori, which allow us to completely classify solid tori representing positive torus knots.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0550

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zbMATH Keywords

torus knotcontactThurston-Bennequin invariantcableLegendrian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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