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Topological constraints on clean Lagrangian intersections from $\mathbb{Q}$-valued augmentations

Symplectic Geometry 2026-03-11 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

Let KK be a knot in R3\mathbb{R}^3 which has the (2,q)(2,q)-torus knot for q±1q\neq \pm 1 or the figure-eight knot as a component of connected sum. For its conormal bundle LKL_K in TR3T^*\mathbb{R}^3, we show that there is no compactly supported Hamiltonian diffeomorphism φ\varphi on TR3T^*\mathbb{R}^3 such that φ(LK)\varphi(L_K) intersects the zero section R3\mathbb{R}^3 cleanly along the unknot in R3\mathbb{R}^3. Using symplectic field theory, the proof is reduced to studying the augmentation variety Vk(K)V_{\mathbf{k}}(K) of KK over a filed k\mathbf{k}. The key point of this paper is finding an algebraic constraint on Vk(K)V_{\mathbf{k}}(K) which is valid only when k\mathbf{k} is not algebraically closed, and the proof is completed by some arithmetic argument with k=Q\mathbf{k}=\mathbb{Q}.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2505.00330,
  title  = {Topological constraints on clean Lagrangian intersections from $\mathbb{Q}$-valued augmentations},
  author = {Yukihiro Okamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.00330},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

24 pages, 1 figure, The proof of Theorem 1.1 is reorganized

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