On Legendrian representatives of non-fibered knots

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Main Authors: Li, Zhenkun, Wan, Shunyu
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author Li, Zhenkun
Wan, Shunyu
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Wan, Shunyu
contents We show that in $(S^3,ξ_{std})$ if $K$ is a non-trivial knot that realizes the three-dimensional Thurston-Bennequin bound (i.e. $K$ has a Legendrian representative $Λ$ with $tb(Λ)-rot(Λ)=2g(K)-1$), then $K$ has a Legendrian representative $L$ with $tb=0$. Moreover, this result can be easily generalized to contact manifolds that uniquely represent the associated contact invariants. This is the first result on Legendrian representatives of non-fibered knots in $3-$manifolds other than $S^3$. We also show that if $K$ is a nearly fibered knot in $S^3$ then $τ(K)=g(K)$ implies that $K$ realizes the three-dimensional Thurston-Bennequin bound.
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spellingShingle On Legendrian representatives of non-fibered knots
Li, Zhenkun
Wan, Shunyu
Geometric Topology
We show that in $(S^3,ξ_{std})$ if $K$ is a non-trivial knot that realizes the three-dimensional Thurston-Bennequin bound (i.e. $K$ has a Legendrian representative $Λ$ with $tb(Λ)-rot(Λ)=2g(K)-1$), then $K$ has a Legendrian representative $L$ with $tb=0$. Moreover, this result can be easily generalized to contact manifolds that uniquely represent the associated contact invariants. This is the first result on Legendrian representatives of non-fibered knots in $3-$manifolds other than $S^3$. We also show that if $K$ is a nearly fibered knot in $S^3$ then $τ(K)=g(K)$ implies that $K$ realizes the three-dimensional Thurston-Bennequin bound.
title On Legendrian representatives of non-fibered knots
topic Geometric Topology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16549