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Flexible Lagrangians

Symplectic Geometry 2016-08-17 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We introduce and discuss notions of regularity and flexibility for Lagrangian manifolds with Legendrian boundary in Weinstein domains. There is a surprising abundance of flexible Lagrangians. In turn, this leads to new constructions of Legendrians submanifolds and Weinstein manifolds. For instance, many closed nn-manifolds of dimension n>2n>2 can be realized as exact Lagrangian submanifolds of TSnT^*S^n with possibly exotic Weinstein symplectic structures. These Weinstein structures on TSnT^* S^n, infinitely many of which are distinct, are formed by a single handle attachment to the standard 2n2n-ball along the Legendrian boundaries of flexible Lagrangians. We also formulate a number of open problems.

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@article{arxiv.1510.01287,
  title  = {Flexible Lagrangians},
  author = {Yakov Eliashberg and Sheel Ganatra and Oleg Lazarev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.01287},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pages, 3 figures New version is restructured and expanded, new results are added

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