Uniqueness of the mountain-range diagram for non-loose torus knots

Let (p,q)(p,q) be a pair of coprime integers specifying a torus knot, and consider an overtwisted contact structure that supports non-loose Legendrian (p,q)(p,q)--torus knots. The mountain range is the collection of these knots organized by their classical invariants and destabilization relations. Mountain-range uniqueness conjecture. In each overtwisted contact structure that supports non-loose (p,q)(p,q)--torus knots, the mountain range of such knots is given by only one of the diagrams indicated in Figures~ and~. The conjecture asserts that the mountain ranges depicted in the generic and exceptional cases never occur together in a single overtwisted contact structure; it is based on the authors' computed examples, while no general proof is given.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

John B. Etnyre, Hyunki Min and Anubhav Mukherjee, “Non-loose torus knots”, arXiv:2206.14848 (2022).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.