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Legendrian Realization in Convex Lefschetz Fibrations and Convex Stabilizations

Symplectic Geometry 2018-03-23 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

In this paper, we study compact convex Lefschetz fibrations on compact convex symplectic manifolds (i.e., Liouville domains) of dimension 2n+22n+2 which are introduced by Seidel and later also studied by McLean. By a result of Akbulut-Arikan, the open book on W\partial W, which we call \emph{convex open book}, induced by a compact convex Lefschetz fibration on WW carries the contact structure induced by the convex symplectic structure (i.e., Liouville structure) on WW. Here we show that, up to a Liouville homotopy and a deformation of compact convex Lefschetz fibrations on WW, any simply connected embedded Lagrangian submanifold of a page in a convex open book on W\partial W can be assumed to be Legendrian in W\partial W with the induced contact structure. This can be thought as the extension of Giroux's Legendrian realization (which holds for contact open books) for the case of convex open books. Moreover, a result of Akbulut-Arikan implies that there is a one-to-one correspondence between convex stabilizations of a convex open book and convex stabilizations of the corresponding compact convex Lefschetz fibration. We also show that the convex stabilization of a compact convex Lefschetz fibration on WW yields a compact convex Lefschetz fibration on a Liouville domain WW' which is exact symplectomorphic to a \emph{positive expansion} of WW. In particular, with the induced structures W\partial W and W\partial W' are contactomorphic.

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@article{arxiv.1211.5050,
  title  = {Legendrian Realization in Convex Lefschetz Fibrations and Convex Stabilizations},
  author = {Selman Akbulut and M. Firat Arikan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.5050},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

13 pages, 1 figure, minor corrections made