Knot contact homology, string topology, and the cord algebra

Kai Cieliebak, Tobias Ekholm, Janko Latschev +1

The conormal Lagrangian $L_K$ of a knot $K$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^3$ is the submanifold of the cotangent bundle $T^{\ast }{\mathbb{R}}^3$ consisting of covectors along $K$ that annihilate tangen…