The strong virtual Legendrian isotopy conjecture for sphere fibers

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A strong allowable virtual Legendrian isotopy is a virtual Legendrian isotopy during which the universal cover of the underlying manifold MM is never homeomorphic to a CROSS, where CROSS means a compact rank-one symmetric space. A sphere fiber is a fiber of the spherical cotangent bundle ST∗MST^*M.

Strong virtual Legendrian isotopy conjecture. There exists no strong allowable positive, or non-constant non-negative, virtual Legendrian isotopy of the sphere fiber of ST∗MST^*M to itself.

This conjecture extends the known obstruction for non-negative Legendrian isotopies of a fiber to itself: such isotopies force the universal cover to have the cohomological properties of a compact rank-one symmetric space. A stronger result is known for positive isotopies, while the stated virtual version remains open.

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Vladimir Chernov and Rustam Sadykov, “Conjectures about virtual Legendrian knots and links”, arXiv:2302.03607 (2023).

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