2014/06/30 by Casey, Emily E., Henry, Michael B.
#57M25 (Secondary) #57M27 #57R17 (Primary) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1407.0069
The Chekanov-Eliashberg differential graded algebra of a Legendrian knot L is a rich source of Legendrian knot invariants, as is the theory of generating families. The set P(L) of homology groups of augmentations of the Chekanov-Eliashberg algebra is an invariant, as is a count of objects from the theory of generating families called graded normal rulings. This article gives two results demonstrating the usefulness of computing the homology group of an augmentation using a combinatorial interpretation of a generating family called a Morse complex sequence. First, we show that if the projection of L to the xz-plane has exactly 4 cusps, then |P(L)| is less than or equal to 1. Second, we show that two augmentations associated to the same graded normal ruling by the many-to-one map between augmentations and graded normal rulings defined by Ng and Sabloff need not have isomorphic homology groups.