The contact cosmetic surgery conjecture for Legendrian knots

Let (Y,si)(Y,si) be an integer homology sphere, and let a Legendrian knot be a knot represented by a Legendrian embedding in (Y,si)(Y,si). Two contact surgeries on the knot with distinct smooth coefficients are cosmetic if the resulting contact manifolds are contactomorphic.

Contact cosmetic surgery conjecture. Any Legendrian knot in (Y,si)(Y,si) that is not smoothly an unknot admits no cosmetic contact surgeries.

The paper establishes this claim for non-trivial Legendrian knots in integer homology sphere LL-spaces, with a possible exception consisting of Lagrangian slice knots. The supplied text does not establish the conjecture in the full class of integer homology spheres.

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Primary source

Apratim Chakraborty, Swarup Kumar Das and Tanushree Shah, “Contact cosmetic surgery on Legendrian knots in integer homology sphere L-spaces”, arXiv:2606.27485 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2024–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2411.02201.

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