Formal isotopy detection by contact push-offs

Let nn be a positive integer, and let (S2n+1,ξst)(S^{2n+1},\xi_\text{st}) be the standard contact sphere. Let Λ0,Λ1(S2n+1,ξst)\Lambda_0,\Lambda_1\subseteq(S^{2n+1},\xi_\text{st}) be smooth Legendrian submanifolds that are formally Legendrian isotopic, meaning isotopic through formally Legendrian embeddings. For a Legendrian submanifold Λ\Lambda, let τ(Λ)\tau(\Lambda) denote its contact push-off, obtained from the contact submanifold

τ(Λ)=((TΛ)×{0},ξst)\tau(\Lambda)=(\partial(T^*\Lambda)\times\{0\},\xi_\text{st})

under a contactomorphism from a neighborhood of Λ\Lambda to J1ΛJ^1\Lambda. Contact push-off conjecture. If τ(Λ0)\tau(\Lambda_0) and τ(Λ1)\tau(\Lambda_1) are contact isotopic, then Λ0\Lambda_0 and Λ1\Lambda_1 are Legendrian isotopic. The conjecture asks whether the contact push-off retains enough information to detect the Legendrian isotopy class among formally Legendrian isotopic submanifolds; its status is not resolved in the supplied source.

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Roger Casals and John B. Etnyre, “Non-simplicity of isocontact embeddings in all higher dimensions”, arXiv:1811.05455 (2019).

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