Legendrian Gronwall conjecture for Legendrian 3-webs

Let MM be a connected contact three-manifold. A Legendrian 3-web on MM is a set of three pairwise transversal foliations by Legendrian curves. A local linearization is a contactomorphism from an open subset of MM into P3\mathbb{P}^3 that maps every leaf of the foliations to a Legendrian line.

Legendrian Gronwall conjecture. Every Legendrian 3-web admits at most one distinct local linearization in P3\mathbb{P}^3, except when it is locally equivalent to the dual 3-web of the Legendrian twisted cubic curve in P3\mathbb{P}^3; in that exceptional case it admits exactly two distinct local linearizations.

This is the proposed Legendrian analogue of the classical Gronwall conjecture for planar 3-webs, which relates failure of unique linearization to algebraicity. The source presents the assertion as an open conjecture; it also states that the number of local linearizations is uniformly bounded and proves rigidity under suitable flatness assumptions.

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Joe S. Wang, “Legendrian Gronwall conjecture”, arXiv:1202.6425 (2012).

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