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Constructing Lagrangians from triple grid diagrams

Geometric Topology 2025-12-08 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Links in S3S^3 can be encoded by grid diagrams; a grid diagram is a collection of points on a toroidal grid such that each row and column of the grid contains exactly two points. Grid diagrams can be reinterpreted as front projections of Legendrian links in the standard contact 3-sphere. In this paper, we define and investigate triple grid diagrams, a generalization to toroidal diagrams consisting of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal grid lines. In certain cases, a triple grid diagram determines a closed Lagrangian surface in CP2\mathbb{CP}^2. Specifically, each triple grid diagram determines three grid diagrams (row-column, column-diagonal and diagonal-row) and thus three Legendrian links, which we think of collectively as a Legendrian link in a disjoint union of three standard contact 3-spheres. We show that a triple grid diagram naturally determines a Lagrangian cap in the complement of three Darboux balls in CP2\mathbb{CP}^2, whose negative boundary is precisely this Legendrian link. When these Legendrians are maximal Legendrian unlinks, the Lagrangian cap can be filled by Lagrangian slice disks to obtain a closed Lagrangian surface in CP2\mathbb{CP}^2. We construct families of examples of triple grid diagrams and discuss potential applications to obstructing Lagrangian fillings.

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@article{arxiv.2306.16404,
  title  = {Constructing Lagrangians from triple grid diagrams},
  author = {Sarah Blackwell and David T. Gay and Peter Lambert-Cole},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.16404},
  year   = {2025}
}

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27 pages, 23 figures, comments very welcome! v2: Final version, accepted for publication in the Journal of Symplectic Geometry

R2 v1 2026-06-28T11:17:09.445Z