Journal of Symplectic Geometry

Volume 18 (2020)

Number 4

Simple sheaves for knot conormals

Pages: 1027 – 1070

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/JSG.2020.v18.n4.a3

Author

Honghao Gao (Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mi., U.S.A.)

Abstract

We classify simple sheaves microsupported along the conormal bundle of a knot. We also establish a correspondence between simple sheaves up to local systems and augmentations, explaining the underlying reason why knot contact homology representations detect augmentations.

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Received 8 July 2018

Accepted 19 March 2019

Published 28 October 2020