English

Lagrangian fillings and complicated Legendrian unknots

Symplectic Geometry 2018-02-19 v2

Abstract

An exact Lagrangian submanifold LL in the symplectization of standard contact (2n1)(2n-1)-space with Legendrian boundary Σ\Sigma can be glued to itself along Σ\Sigma. This gives a Legendrian embedding Λ(L,L)\Lambda(L,L) of the double of LL into contact (2n+1)(2n+1)-space. We show that the Legendrian isotopy class of Λ(L,L)\Lambda(L,L) is determined by formal data: the manifold LL together with a trivialization of its complexified tangent bundle. In particular, if LL is a disk then Λ(L,L)\Lambda(L,L) is the Legendrian unknot.

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@article{arxiv.1712.07849,
  title  = {Lagrangian fillings and complicated Legendrian unknots},
  author = {Sylvain Courte and Tobias Ekholm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.07849},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

8 pages. An assumption on regularity of Lagrangian fillings was removed following a suggestion by Yang Huang. Version contains Emmy Murphy's proof of looseness of Legendrian spheres obtained by gluing two distinct disk fillings. (These spheres were originally claimed elsewhere by the second author to be non-loose.)