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Lagrangians for the Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture

Differential Geometry 2009-03-13 v2 Mathematical Physics Geometric Topology math.MP

Abstract

This article explains how to construct immersed Lagrangian submanifolds in C^2 that are asymptotic at large distance from the origin to a given braid in the 3-sphere. The self-intersections of the Lagrangians are related to the crossings of the braid. These Lagrangians are then used to construct immersed Lagrangians in the vector bundle O(-1) oplus O(-1) over the Riemann sphere which are asymptotic at large distance from the zero section to braids.

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@article{arxiv.math/0201219,
  title  = {Lagrangians for the Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture},
  author = {Clifford Henry Taubes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0201219},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

This is the version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs on 22 April 2006