The Cardinality of the Augmentation Category of a Legendrian Link
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We introduce a notion of cardinality for the augmentation category associated to a Legendrian knot or link in standard contact R3. This ‘homotopy cardinality’ is an invariant of the category and allows for a weighted count of augmentations, which we prove to be determined by the ruling polynomial of the link. We present an application to the augmentation category of doubly Lagrangian slice knots.
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