A joint paper with David Shea Vela-Vick.
Two stylistic comments:
One-sentence abstract!
Holy negated adjectives, Batman. There’s the doubly-negated “nondestabilizable”, which appears in the title and in approximately every other sentence despite the fact that it’s completely ridiculous-sounding, as well as “nontrivial” (12 times), “nonvanishing” (10 times), “nonmaximal” (4 times), “nonclassical” (once), and “noncommutative” (once). Eventually we made the unilateral decision to eliminate all hyphens from negated adjectives because they were driving us crazy. The highest density seems to be in the last sentence of the third paragraph on page 1, which ends: “in Theorem 1 we show that the Legendrian contact homology is nonvanishing for a certain nondestabilizable Legendrian knot with nonmaximal Thurston–Bennequin invariant.”
