The Legendrian Whitney trick

DOI10.2140/GT.2021.25.3229MaRDI QIDQ2058835zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roger Casals, Dishant M. Pancholi, Francisco Presas

Publication date 10 December 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04828

zbMATH Keywords

\(h\)-principlecontact structureisocontact embeddings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Almost contact and almost symplectic manifolds (53D15) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: In this article, we prove a Legendrian Whitney trick which allows for the removal of intersections between codimension-two contact submanifolds and Legendrian submanifolds, assuming such a smooth cancellation is possible. This technique is applied to show the existence h-principle for codimension-two contact embeddings with a prescribed contact structure.

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