Conjectures about virtual Legendrian knots and links

Abstract

We formulate conjectures generalizing some known results to the category of virtual Legendrian knots. This includes statements relating virtual Legendrian knots to ordinary Legendrian knots, non-existence of positive virtual Legendrian self isotopies for the class of the fiber of ST⁎M and the conjectural relation of virtual Legendrian isotopies to causality in generalized spacetimes. We prove the conjectures in the case of 2-dimensional M and (2+1)-dimensional spacetimes. We also formulate and prove the version of the Arnold's 4 cusp conjecture for virtual isotopies.