Virtual Legendrian isotopy

DOI10.4064/FM969-10-2015MaRDI QIDQ3178226zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 8 July 2016

Published in Fundamenta Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0875

zbMATH Keywords

elementary stabilizationLegendrian linksstable isotopyvirtual Legendrian isotopyvirtual Legendrian links

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: An elementary stabilization of a Legendrian link $L$ in the spherical cotangent bundle $S{T}^{\ast }M$ of a surface $M$ is a surgery that results in attaching a handle to $M$ along two discs away from the image in $M$ of the projection of the link $L$. A virtual Legendrian isotopy is a composition of stabilizations, destabilizations and Legendrian isotopies. In contrast to Legendrian knots, virtual Legendrian knots enjoy the property that there is a bijective correspondence between the virtual Legendrian knots and the equivalence classes of Gauss diagrams. We study virtual Legendrian isotopy classes of Legendrian links and show that every such class contains a unique irreducible representative. In particular we get a solution to the following conjecture of Cahn, Levi and the first author: two Legendrian knots in $S{T}^{\ast }{S}^2$ that are isotopic as virtual Legendrian knots must be Legendrian isotopic in $S{T}^{\ast }{S}^2.$

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