Lagrangian concordance is not a symmetric relation

DOI10.4171/QT/68MaRDI QIDQ889251zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Baptiste Chantraine

Publication date 6 November 2015

Published in Quantum Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3767

zbMATH Keywords

contact homologyLagrangian cobordismLegendrian knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We provide an explicit example of a non trivial Legendrian knot $Lambda$ such that there exists a Lagrangian concordance from $Lambd{a}_0$ to $Lambda$ where $Lambd{a}_0$ is the trivial Legendrian knot. We then use the map induced in Legendrian contact homology by a concordance and the augmentation category of $Lambda$ to show that no Lagrangian concordance exists in the other direction. This proves that the relation of Lagrangian concordance is not symmetric.

Review text

This paper is a natural continuation of the author's earlier work [Algebr. Geom. Topol. 10, No. 1, 63--85 (2010; Zbl 1203.57010)], where it was proved that Lagrangian cobordism does not induce a symmetric relation on Legendrian knots, and that an invertible Lagrangian cobordism must in fact be a concordance. The main result of this paper shows that the Legendrian representative \(\Lambda \subset (\mathbb{R}^3,\xi_{st})\) of the knot \(m(9_{46})\) is the positive end of a Lagrangian concordance from the unknot, but does not admit a Lagrangian concordance to the unknot. This shows that the relation of Lagrangian concordance is not symmetric, even in the simplest possible case. The proof combines two main ingredients to yield a contradiction. The first ingredient, stated as Theorem 1.2, is of independent interest, and asserts that any self-concordance of the unknot with maximal Thurston-Bennequin invariant is in fact symplectomorphic to the product concordance. The second ingredient is the computation of maps induced by Lagrangian concordances and the augmentation category of \(\Lambda\).

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