Generalized normal rulings and invariants of Legendrian solid torus links

DOI10.2140/PJM.2012.258.393MaRDI QIDQ453231zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mikhail Lavrov, Dan Rutherford

Publication date 19 September 2012

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1319, http://msp.org/pjm/2012/258-2/p08.xhtml

zbMATH Keywords

Kauffman polynomialLegendrian knotnormal rulingskein module

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Jets in global analysis (58A20)

Abstract: For Legendrian links in the 1-jet space of $S^1$ we show that the 1-graded ruling polynomial may be recovered from the Kauffman skein module. For such links a generalization of the notion of normal ruling is introduced. We show that the existence of such a generalized normal ruling is equivalent to sharpness of the Kauffman polynomial estimate for the Thurston-Bennequin number as well as to the existence of an ungraded augmentation of the Chekanov-Eliashberg DGA. Parallel results involving the HOMFLY-PT polynomial and 2-graded generalized normal rulings are established.

Review text

There exist interesting connections between the \(2\)-variable knot polynomials and invariants of Legendrian knots in \(\mathbb R^3\). With respect to the standard contact structure on \(\mathbb R^3\), \textit{D.~Fuchs} and \textit{S.~Tabachnikov} [Topology 36, No. 5, 1025--1053 (1997; Zbl 0904.57006)] showed that an upper bound for the Thurston-Bennequin number arises from the Kauffman and HOMFLY-PT knot polynomials. Furthermore, when this estimate is sharp then for a Legendrian link \(L\subset\mathbb R^3\) the following three statements are all equivalent: (i)\,the estimate \(\text{tb}(L)\leq -\text{deg}_aF_L\) (respectively \(\text{tb}(L)\leq -\text{deg}_aP_L\)) is sharp, where \(F_L\), \(P_L\in \mathbb Z[a^{\pm 1},z^{\pm 1}]\) denote the Kauffman and HOMFLY-PT polynomials, (ii)\, a front diagram for \(L\) has a \(1\)-graded (respectively \(2\)-graded) normal ruling, (iii)\,the Chekanov-Eliashberg differential graded algebra of \(L\) has a \(1\)-graded (respectively \(2\)-graded) augmentation.NEWLINENEWLINEIn this paper, the authors establish analogous results for Legendrian knots in the \(1\)-jet space of the circle \(J^1S^1\). The manifold \(J^1S^1\) is topologically an open solid torus and carries a standard contact structure. For a Legendrian link \(L\subset J^1S^1\), they prove that the estimate \(\text{tb}(L)\leq -\text{deg}_aF_L\) (respectively \(\text{tb}(L)\leq -\text{deg}_aP_L\)) is sharp if and only if \(L\) has a \(1\)-graded (respectively \(2\)-graded) generalized normal ruling. Also, it is shown that if \(L\) has been assigned a \(\mathbb Z/p\)-valued Maslov potential, then the Chekanov-Eliashberg differential graded algebra of \(L\) has a \(p\)-graded augmentation if and only if a front diagram for \(L\) admits a \(p\)-graded generalized normal ruling.

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