Graduate Colloquium: An Introduction to Legendrian contact homology
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3620 South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Robin Rong, USC
Title: An Introduction to Legendrian contact homology
Abstract: Legendrian contact homology is a Floer-theoretic invariant of Legendrian knots, a class of knots in contact 3-manifolds. In this talk, we will begin with a brief review of contact manifolds, Legendrian knots, and their classical invariants. We will then introduce Legendrian contact homology for Legendrian knots in \mathbb{R}^3, focusing on both its combinatorial definition and its geometric motivation from Floer homology.
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