Legendrian Gauss-map rigidity under contact homeomorphisms

Let (Y,ξ)(Y,\xi) be a contact manifold and let Λ(Y,ξ)\Lambda\subseteq(Y,\xi) be a Legendrian embedding. Consider contactomorphisms φnCont0(Y,ξ)\varphi_n\in\operatorname{Cont}_0(Y,\xi) such that φnφ\varphi_n\to\varphi_\infty in the C0C^0-topology, where φ\varphi_\infty is a homeomorphism. When φ(Λ)\varphi_\infty(\Lambda) is smooth, its Lagrangian Gauss map—the map from the Legendrian to U/OU/O determined by its tangent Lagrangian planes—should remain the same:

Legendrian Gauss-map rigidity conjecture. The diagram relating the Lagrangian Gauss maps of Λ\Lambda and φ(Λ)\varphi_\infty(\Lambda) commutes:

\begin{tikzcd}[row sep=4pt] \Lambda \ar[dr] \ar[dd, "\varphi_\infty" \left] & \\ & U/O \\ \varphi_\infty(\Lambda) \ar[ur] & \end{tikzcd}

This would extend the known rigidity of Maslov data in cosphere bundles to general contact manifolds. The statement is motivated by the difficulty of cutting off contactomorphisms near closed Legendrians while preserving their C0C^0-distance; its resolution in higher dimensions is not supplied here.

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Tomohiro Asano, Yuichi Ike, Christopher Kuo and Wenyuan Li, “C^0-rigidity of Legendrians and coisotropics via sheaf quantization”, arXiv:2510.01746 (2025).

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