Lifting pseudo-holomorphic polygons to the symplectisation of $P\times \mathbb{R}$ and applications

Abstract

Let $\mathbb{R}\times (P\times \mathbb{R})$ be the symplectisation of the contactisation of an exact symplectic manifold $P$, and let $\mathbb{R}\times \Lambda$ be a cylinder over a Legendrian submanifold in the contactisation. We show that a pseudo-holomorphic polygon in $P$ having boundary on the projection of $\Lambda$ can be lifted to a pseudo-holomorphic disc in the symplectisation having boundary on $\mathbb{R}\times \Lambda$. It follows that Legendrian contact homology may be equivalently defined by counting either of these objects. Using this result, we give a proof of Seidel's isomorphism of the linearised Legendrian contact homology induced by an exact Lagrangian filling and the singular homology of the filling.

61 pages, 2 figures. Final version. (Typos have been corrected.)

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