Rotation numbers and the Euler class in open books

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Autori principali: Durst, Sebastian, Kegel, Marc, Licata, Joan E.
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author Durst, Sebastian
Kegel, Marc
Licata, Joan E.
author_facet Durst, Sebastian
Kegel, Marc
Licata, Joan E.
contents This paper introduces techniques for computing a variety of numerical invariants associated to a Legendrian knot in a contact manifold presented by an open book with a Morse structure. Such a Legendrian knot admits a front projection to the boundary of a regular neighborhood of the binding. From this front projection, we compute the rotation number for any null-homologous Legendrian knot as a count of oriented cusps and linking or intersection numbers; in the case that the manifold has non-trivial second homology, we can recover the rotation number with respect to a Seifert surface in any homology class. We also provide explicit formulas for computing the necessary intersection numbers from the front projection, and we compute the Euler class of the contact structure supported by the open book. Finally, we introduce a notion of Lagrangian projection and compute the classical invariants of a null-homologous Legendrian knot from its projection to a fixed page.
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spellingShingle Rotation numbers and the Euler class in open books
Durst, Sebastian
Kegel, Marc
Licata, Joan E.
Geometric Topology
Symplectic Geometry
This paper introduces techniques for computing a variety of numerical invariants associated to a Legendrian knot in a contact manifold presented by an open book with a Morse structure. Such a Legendrian knot admits a front projection to the boundary of a regular neighborhood of the binding. From this front projection, we compute the rotation number for any null-homologous Legendrian knot as a count of oriented cusps and linking or intersection numbers; in the case that the manifold has non-trivial second homology, we can recover the rotation number with respect to a Seifert surface in any homology class. We also provide explicit formulas for computing the necessary intersection numbers from the front projection, and we compute the Euler class of the contact structure supported by the open book. Finally, we introduce a notion of Lagrangian projection and compute the classical invariants of a null-homologous Legendrian knot from its projection to a fixed page.
title Rotation numbers and the Euler class in open books
topic Geometric Topology
Symplectic Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05886