Invariants of Legendrian Knots in Circle Bundles

DOI10.1142/S0219199703001075zbMATH Open1046.57013arXivmath/0208214OpenAlexW2055236812MaRDI QIDQ4454533FDOQ4454533

Authors: Joshua M. Sabloff 

Publication date: 8 March 2004

Published in: Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let E be a circle bundle over a Riemann surface that supports a contact structure transverse to the fibers. This paper presents a combinatorial definition of a differential graded algebra (DGA) that is an invariant of Legendrian knots in E. The invariant generalizes Chekanov's combinatorial DGA invariant of Legendrian knots in the standard contact 3-space using ideas from Eliashberg, Givental, and Hofer's contact homology. The main difficulty lies in dealing with what are ostensibly 1-parameter families of generators for the DGA; these are solved using ``Morse-Bott techniques. As an application, the invariant is used to distinguish two Legendrian knots that are smoothly isotopic, realize a non-trivial homology class, but are not Legendrian isotopic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0208214

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zbMATH Keywords

Legendrian~knotcontact~homologycircle-bundlesMorse-Bott, DGA~invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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