Eventual destabilization of low-Thurston–Bennequin Legendrian representatives
Eventual destabilization of low-Thurston–Bennequin Legendrian representatives
Let be a null-homologous smooth knot type in a tight contact manifold . A Legendrian representative of has a Thurston–Bennequin invariant . Low-Thurston–Bennequin destabilization conjecture. There is an integer such that every Legendrian representative of with destabilizes. The conjecture would provide a broad criterion for recognizing destabilizable Legendrian representatives and would substantially aid the classification of Legendrian knots; it remains open in general.
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John B. Etnyre, “Neighborhoods of transverse knots and destabilizations”, arXiv:2512.15651 (2026).
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