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The classification of Lagrangians nearby the Whitney immersion

Symplectic Geometry 2020-01-08 v2

Abstract

The Whitney immersion is a Lagrangian sphere inside the four-dimensional symplectic vector space which has a single transverse double point of Whitney self-intersection number +1.+1. This Lagrangian also arises as the Weinstein skeleton of the complement of a binodal cubic curve inside the projective plane, and the latter Weinstein manifold is thus the `standard' neighbourhood of Lagrangian immersions of this type. We classify the Lagrangians inside such a neighbourhood which are homologically essential, and which either are embedded or immersed with a single double point; they are shown to be Hamiltonian isotopic to either product tori, Chekanov tori, or rescalings of the Whitney immersion.

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@article{arxiv.1712.01182,
  title  = {The classification of Lagrangians nearby the Whitney immersion},
  author = {Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01182},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

72 pages, 16 figures. Revised version: Section 5 has been streamlined