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Augmentations and immersed Lagrangian fillings

For a Legendrian link $Λ\subset J^1M$ with $M = \mathbb{R}$ or $S^1$, immersed exact Lagrangian fillings $L \subset \mbox{Symp}(J^1M) \cong T^*(\mathbb{R}_{>0} \times M)$ of $Λ$ can be lifted to conical Legendrian fillings $Σ\subset J^1(\mathbb{R}_{>0} \times M)$ of $Λ$. When $Σ$ is embedded, using the version of functoriality for Legendrian contact homology (LCH) from [30], for each augmentation $α: \mathcal{A}(Σ) \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}/2$ of the LCH algebra of $Σ$, there is an induced augmentation $ε_{(Σ,α)}: \mathcal{A}(Λ) \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}/2$. With $Σ$ fixed, the set of homotopy classes of all such induced augmentations, $I_Σ\subset \mathit{Aug}(Λ)/{\sim}$, is a Legendrian isotopy invariant of $Σ$. We establish methods to compute $I_Σ$ based on the correspondence between Morse complex families and augmentations. This includes developing a functoriality for the cellular DGA from [31] with respect to Legendrian cobordisms, and proving its equivalence to the functoriality for LCH. For arbitrary $n \geq 1$, we give examples of Legendrian torus knots with $2n$ distinct conical Legendrian fillings distinguished by their induced augmentation sets. We prove that when $ρ\neq 1$ and $Λ\subset J^1\mathbb{R}$ every $ρ$-graded augmentation of $Λ$ can be induced in this manner by an immersed Lagrangian filling. Alternatively, this is viewed as a computation of cobordism classes for an appropriate notion of $ρ$-graded augmented Legendrian cobordism.