Generating family invariants for Legendrian links of unknots

DOI10.2140/AGT.2006.6.895zbMATH Open1130.57018arXiv0904.2690OpenAlexW2005427185MaRDI QIDQ863044FDOQ863044

Authors: Jill Jordan, Lisa Traynor 

Publication date: 25 January 2007

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

Abstract: Theory is developed for linear-quadratic at infinity generating families for Legendrian knots in R^3. It is shown that the unknot with maximal Thurston--Bennequin invariant of -1 has a unique linear-quadratic at infinity generating family, up to fiber-preserving diffeomorphism and stabilization. From this, invariant generating family polynomials are constructed for 2-component Legendrian links where each component is a maximal unknot. Techniques are developed to compute these polynomials, and computations are done for two families of Legendrian links: rational links and twist links. The polynomials allow one to show that some topologically equivalent links with the same classical invariants are not Legendrian equivalent. It is also shown that for these families of links the generating family polynomials agree with the polynomials arising from a linearization of the differential graded algebra associated to the links.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.2690

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zbMATH Keywords

generating functionsLegendrian linksDGAgenerating families

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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