Area comparison results for isotropic surfaces
Abstract
Consider a 2-plane and let be a bounded region in with a piecewise-smooth boundary. Let be the infimum of areas of all piecewise-smooth isotropic surfaces in with the same boundary as . Then . If is not complex, . For a complex plane , , and also is the area of an explicit Hamiltonian stationary isotropic Mobius band embedded in whose boundary is a unit circle in . As a corollary, a compact surface (possibly with boundary) in a symplectic manifold can be approximated by isotropic surfaces of area . Another corollary is that a closed curve of length in bounds an isotropic surface of area . A related result is the following: consider and let be a region in . Let be the infimum of areas of all isotropic surfaces in with the same boundary as representing the same relative homology class mod 2 as . Then . Moreover the first inequality becomes an equality for .
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0409293,
title = {Area comparison results for isotropic surfaces},
author = {Edward Goldstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0409293},
year = {2007}
}
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10 pages