Non-Orientable Lagrangian Fillings of Legendrian Knots

We investigate when a Legendrian knot in the standard contact ${{\mathbb{R}}}^3$ has a non-orientable exact Lagrangian filling. We prove analogs of several results in the orientable setting, develop new combinatorial obstructions to fillability, and determine when several families of knots have such...

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Published in:Mathematical proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 2024-01, Vol.176 (1), p.123-153
Main Authors: CHEN, LINYI, CRIDER-PHILLIPS, GRANT, REINOSO, BRAEDEN, SABLOFF, JOSHUA, YAO, LEYU
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Combinatorial analysis
Decomposition
Knots
Obstructions
Toruses
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Summary:We investigate when a Legendrian knot in the standard contact ${{\mathbb{R}}}^3$ has a non-orientable exact Lagrangian filling. We prove analogs of several results in the orientable setting, develop new combinatorial obstructions to fillability, and determine when several families of knots have such fillings. In particular, we completely determine when an alternating knot (and more generally a plus-adequate knot) is decomposably non-orientably fillable and classify the fillability of most torus and 3-strand pretzel knots. We also describe rigidity phenomena of decomposable non-orientable fillings, including finiteness of the possible normal Euler numbers of fillings and the minimisation of crosscap numbers of fillings, obtaining results which contrast in interesting ways with the smooth setting.
ISSN:0305-0041
1469-8064
DOI:10.1017/S0305004123000440