Non-orientable Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian knots

TL;DR

This paper explores conditions under which Legendrian knots in standard contact space admit non-orientable exact Lagrangian fillings, introducing new combinatorial obstructions and classifying fillability for various knot families.

Contribution

It develops new criteria and classifications for non-orientable Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian knots, extending known results from the orientable case and revealing rigidity phenomena.

Findings

Complete classification for alternating and plus-adequate knots' fillability.

Determined fillability of most torus and 3-strand pretzel knots.

Identified finiteness and minimization properties of fillings' invariants.

Abstract

We investigate when a Legendrian knot in standard contact $\mathbb{R}^3$ has a non-orientable exact Lagrangian filling. We prove analogs of several results in the orientable setting, develop new combinatorial obstructions to fillability, and determine when several families of knots have such fillings. In particular, we determine completely when an alternating knot (and more generally a plus-adequate knot) is decomposably non-orientably fillable, and classify the fillability of most torus and 3-strand pretzel knots. We also describe rigidity phenomena of decomposable non-orientable fillings, including finiteness of the possible normal Euler numbers of fillings, and the minimization of crosscap numbers of fillings, obtaining results which contrast in interesting ways with the smooth setting.