In the first paper, we prove that for a closed Legendrian submanifold L of dimension n>2 with a loose chart of size η, any Legendrian isotopy starting at L can be C0-approximated by a Legendrian isotopy with energy arbitrarily close to η/2. This in particular implies that the displacement energy of loose displaceable Legendrians is bounded by half the size of its smallest loose chart, which proves a conjecture of Dimitroglou Rizell and Sullivan. In the second paper, we show that the Legendrian lift of an exact, displaceable Lagrangian has vanishing Shelukhin-Chekanov-Hofer pseudo-metric by lifting an argument due to Sikorav to the contactization. In particular, this proves the existence of such Legendrians, providing counterexamples to a conjecture of Rosen and Zhang. After completion of the manuscript, we noticed that Cant (arXiv:2301.06205) independently proved a more general version of our main result.

This thesis consists of a summary of two papers dealing with questions related to Legendrian submanifolds of contact manifolds together with exact Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds. The focus is on studying Legendrian submanifolds from the perspective of their handle decompositions. The techniques used are mainly from Symplectic Field Theory. In Paper I, a series of examples of Legendrian surfaces in standard contact 5-space are studied. For every g > 0, we produce g+1 Legendrian surfaces of genus g, all with g+1 transverse Reeb chords, which lie in distinct Legendrian isotopy classes. For each g, exactly one of the constructed surfaces has a Legendrian contact homology algebra admitting an augmentation. Moreover, it is shown that the same surface is the only one admitting a generating family. Legendrian contact homology with Novikov coefficients is used to classify the different Legendrian surfaces. In particular, we study their augmentation varieties. In Paper II, the effect of a Legendrian ambient surgery on a Legendrian submanifold is studied. Given a Legendrian submanifold together which certain extra data, a Legendrian ambient surgery produces a Legendrian embedding of the manifold obtained by surgery on the original submanifold. The construction also provides an exact Lagrangian handle-attachment cobordism between the two submanifolds. The Legendrian contact homology of the submanifold produced by the Legendrian ambient surgery is then computed in terms of pseudo-holomorphic disks determined by data on the original submanifold. Also, the cobordism map induced by the exact Lagrangian handle attachment is computed. As a consequence, it is shown that a sub-critical standard Lagrangian handle attachment cobordism induces a one-to-one correspondence between the augmentations of the Legendrian contact homology algebras of its two ends.

This thesis is devoted to the study of the effect of Legendrian surgery on contact manifolds. In particular, we study the effect of this surgery on the Reeb dynamics of the contact manifold on which we perform such a surgery along Legendrian links. We obtain an exact sequence of cyclic Legendrian homology for the Legendrian links. Then we present the applications in 3-dimension and higher dimensions. / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

This thesis consists of three scientific papers dealing with invariants of Legendrian and Lagrangian submanifolds. Besides the scientific papers, the thesis contains an introduction to contact and symplectic geometry, and a brief outline of Symplectic field theory with focus on Legendrian contact homology. In Paper I we give an orientation scheme for moduli spaces of rigid flow trees in Legendrian contact homology. The flow trees can be seen as the adiabatic limit of sequences of punctured pseudo-holomorphic disks with boundary on the Lagrangian projection of the Legendrian. So to equip the trees with orientations corresponds to orienting the determinant line bundle of the dbar-operator over the space of Lagrangian boundary conditions on the punctured disk. We define an  orientation of this line bundle and prove that it is well-defined in the limit. We also prove that the chosen orientation scheme gives rise to a combinatorial algorithm for computing the orientation of the trees, and we give an explicit description of this algorithm. In Paper II we study exact Lagrangian cobordisms with cylindrical Legendrian ends, induced by Legendrian isotopies. We prove that the combinatorially defined DGA-morphisms used to prove invariance of Legendrian contact homology for Legendrian knots over the integers can be derived analytically.  This is proved using the orientation scheme from Paper I together with a count of abstractly perturbed flow trees  of the Lagrangian cobordisms. In Paper III we prove a flexibility result for closed, immersed Lagrangian submanifolds in the standard symplectic plane.

Dans cette thèse, on manipule deux types d'objets fondamentaux de la topologie de contact : les sous-variétés legendriennes des espaces de 1-jets de fonctions dé finies sur une variété M, noté J1(M;R), et la notion intimement liée de fonctions génératrices. On étudie des "opérations" que l'on peut faire sur ces objets, c'est-à-dire des procédures qui construisent (génériquement) de nouvelles sous-variétés legendriennes à partir d'anciennes. On dé finit en particulier les opérations somme et convolution des sous-variétés legendriennes, qui sont conjuguées par une transformation de type transformée de Legendre. Nous montrons que ces opérations se refl ètent harmonieusement dans le monde des fonctions génératrices. Ce second point de vue nous conduit en particulier à nous interroger sur l'effet de nos opérations sur le sélecteur, notion classique de géométrie symplectique dont on adapte la construction à ce contexte. Pour fi nir, on se concentre sur l'espace à trois dimensions J1(R;R) et sur les noeuds legendriens qui admettent (globalement) une fonction génératrice. C'est une condition forte sur les sous-variétés legendriennes, que l'on choisit d'étudier en proposant plusieurs constructions explicites. On termine avec l'étude des notions de cobordisme legendrien naturellement associées, où l'opération somme évoquée plus s'avère tenir une place centrale. / This thesis concerns two types of fundamental objects of the contact topology : Legendrian submanifolds in 1-jet spaces of functions de fined on a manifold M, denoted by J1(M;R), and the closed related notion of generating functions. We study "operations" that build (generically) new Legendrian submanifolds from old ones. In particular, we de fined the operations sum and convolution of Legendrian submanifolds, which are linked by a form of the Legendre transform. We show how the operations are well re flected in terms of generating functions. It offers a second point of view and leads us to wonder the effect of our operations on the selector, which is a classical notion of symplectic geometry, and we adapt its construction to this context. Finally, we focus on the three dimensional space J1(R;R) and Legendrian knots which admit a (global) generating function. It is a strong condition for Legendrian submanifolds, and we choose to examine it by proposing several explicit constructions. We conclude by studying the notions of Legendrian cobordism which are naturally related. The operation sum mentioned before finds there a central role.