Bordered Legendrian Rational Symplectic Field Theory

Abstract

In this thesis, we develop a bordered version of Ng's Legendrian Rational Symplectic Field Theory. Given a Legendrian knot Λ⊂R3 and a vertical line dividing the front projection of Λ into two parts, we construct a differential graded algebra associated to each half-knot. We then show that one may obtain the commutative algebra from Legendrian Symplectic Field Theory as a pushout of the two bordered algebras. This construction extends Sivek's bordered Chekanov-Eliashberg differential graded algebra by incorporating disks with multiple positive punctures into the differential.