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Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian knots arise in Symplectic Field Theory and impose an interesting and not well-understood relation on Legendrian knots. There are some known elementary building blocks for Lagrangian cobordisms that are smoothly the attachment of $0$- and $1$-handles. An important question is whether every pair of non-empty Legendrians that are related by a connected Lagrangian cobordism can be related by a ribbon Lagrangian cobordism, in particular one that is decomposable into a composition of these elementary building blocks. We will describe these and other combinatorial building blocks as well as some geometric methods, involving the theory of satellites, to construct Lagrangian cobordisms. We will then survey some known results, derived through Heegaard Floer Homology and contact surgery, that may provide a pathway to proving the existence of nondecomposable (nonribbon) Lagrangian cobordisms.
We establish an existence $h$-principle for symplectic cobordisms of dimension $2n>4$ with concave overtwisted contact boundary.
Given a Lagrangian cobordism $L$ of Legendrian submanifolds from $Lambda_-$ to $Lambda_+$, we construct a functor $Phi_L^*: Sh^c_{Lambda_+}(M) rightarrow Sh^c_{Lambda_-}(M) otimes_{C_{-*}(Omega_*Lambda_-)} C_{-*}(Omega_*L)$ between sheaf categories of compact objects with singular support on $Lambda_pm$ and its adjoint on sheaf categories of proper objects, using Nadler-Shendes work. This gives a sheaf theory description analogous to the Lagrangian cobordism map on Legendrian contact homologies and the adjoint on their unital augmentation categories. We also deduce some long exact sequences and new obstructions to Lagrangian cobordisms between high dimensional Legendrian submanifolds.
We prove that closed connected contact manifolds of dimension $geq 5$ related by an h-cobordism with a flexible Weinstein structure become contactomorphic after some kind of stabilization. We also provide examples of non-conjugate contact structures on a closed manifold with exact symplectomorphic symplectizations.
We construct an explicit categorification of the action of tangles on tensor powers of the fundamental representation of quantum sl(2).
In this short note we observe that the boundary of a properly embedded compact exact Lagrangian sub-manifolds in a subcritical Weinstein domain $X$ necessarily admits Reeb chords. The existence of this Reeb chords either follows from an obstruction to the deformation of the boundary to a cylinder over a Legendrian sub-manifold or from the fact that the wrapped Floer homology of the Lagrangian vanishes once this boundary have been collared.