Weinstein exactness of nearby Lagrangians and related questions
Abstract
We address the following problem: if a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism maps a Lagrangian submanifold to a small Weinstein neighborhood of , is the image necessarily Hamiltonian isotopic to inside that neighborhood? On the one hand, we show that the question can have a negative answer in any symplectic manifold of dimension at least six. On the other hand, we answer an a priori weaker form of the question in the positive in various cases when satisfies a rationality condition: we prove that the image of is often exact inside the Weinstein neighborhood. We provide applications to the Lagrangian counterpart of the flux conjecture, to -rigidity phenomena of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms, and to topological properties of spaces of Lagrangians with the same rationality constraint. Moreover, we state and prove cases of an analogue of Viterbo's spectral norm conjecture for non-exact Lagrangians; in the process, we make progress on an old question of Viterbo regarding integer difference vectors between points of Lagrangians.
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@article{arxiv.2410.04158,
title = {Weinstein exactness of nearby Lagrangians and related questions},
author = {Marcelo S. Atallah and Jean-Philippe Chassé and Rémi Leclercq and Egor Shelukhin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.04158},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
40 pages; v2: metadata correction; v3: two authors added, paper expanded, main results extended to new cases, new applications related to questions of Viterbo; v4: restructuring of sections and title change