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Lagrangian Cobordisms via Generating Families: Constructions and Geography

Symplectic Geometry 2015-09-30 v2

Abstract

Embedded Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds are produced from isotopy, spinning, and handle attachment constructions that employ the technique of generating families. Moreover, any Legendrian with a generating family has an immersed Lagrangian filling with a compatible generating family. These constructions are applied in several directions, in particular to a non-classical geography question: any graded group satisfying a duality condition can be realized as the generating family homology of a connected Legendrian submanifold in R^{2n+1} or in the 1-jet space of any compact n-manifold with n at least 2.

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@article{arxiv.1409.3152,
  title  = {Lagrangian Cobordisms via Generating Families: Constructions and Geography},
  author = {Frederic Bourgeois and Joshua M. Sabloff and Lisa Traynor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.3152},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

34 pages, 11 figures. v2: corrected a reference