Contact homology and one parameter families of Legendrian knots

DOI10.2140/GT.2005.9.2013zbMATH Open1095.53059arXivmath/0407347OpenAlexW2074089660MaRDI QIDQ813162FDOQ813162

Authors: Tamás Kálmán 

Publication date: 30 January 2006

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

Abstract: We consider S^1-families of Legendrian knots in the standard contact R^3. We define the monodromy of such a loop, which is an automorphism of the Chekanov-Eliashberg contact homology of the starting (and ending) point. We prove this monodromy is a homotopy invariant of the loop. We also establish techniques to address the issue of Reidemeister moves of Lagrangian projections of Legendrian links. As an application, we exhibit a loop of right-handed Legendrian torus knots which is non-contractible in the space Leg(S^1,R^3) of Legendrian knots, although it is contractible in the space Emb(S^1,R^3) of smooth knots. For this result, we also compute the contact homology of what we call the Legendrian closure of a positive braid and construct an augmentation for each such link diagram.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407347

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zbMATH Keywords

Legendrian contact homologytorus knotsmonodromyReidemeister movesbraid positive knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40)

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