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On the strict Arnold chord property and coisotropic submanifolds of complex projective space

Symplectic Geometry 2015-01-20 v2

Abstract

Let α\alpha be a contact form on a manifold MM, and LML\subseteq M a closed Legendrian submanifold. I prove that LL intersects some characteristic for α\alpha at least twice if all characteristics are closed and of the same period, and α\alpha embeds nicely into the product of R2n\mathbb{R}^{2n} and an exact symplectic manifold. As an application of the method of proof, the minimal action of a regular closed coisotropic submanifold of complex projective space is at most π/2\pi/2. This yields an obstruction to presymplectic embeddings, and in particular to Lagrangian embeddings.

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@article{arxiv.1409.0404,
  title  = {On the strict Arnold chord property and coisotropic submanifolds of complex projective space},
  author = {Fabian Ziltener},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0404},
  year   = {2015}
}

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