English

Lagrangian antisurgery

Symplectic Geometry 2021-01-21 v3

Abstract

We describe an operation which modifies a Lagrangian submanifold LL in a symplectic manifold (M,ω)(M, \omega) such as to produce a new immersed Lagrangian submanifold LL', which as a smooth manifold is obtained by surgery along a framed sphere in LL. Intuitively, this can be described as collapsing an isotropic disc with boundary on LL to a point. The inverse operation generalizes classical Lagrangian surgery. We also describe corresponding immersed Lagrangian cobordisms between LL and LL' . After removal of their singular locus, we obtain examples of embedded Lagrangian cobordisms with precisely two ends. As an application, we use this construction to produce interesting examples of Lagrangian cobordisms between Clifford and Chekanov tori.

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@article{arxiv.1511.05052,
  title  = {Lagrangian antisurgery},
  author = {Luis Haug},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.05052},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

27 pages, 13 figures. v2: Major update that makes Theorem 1.2 more precise and removes erroneous claims about the existence of certain monotone Lagrangian cobordisms made in the previous version. v3: Minor update to agree with published version

R2 v1 2026-06-22T11:46:29.071Z