A Lagrangian camel (Q1969355)
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A Lagrangian camel (English)
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15 February 2001
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The paper deals with the Lagrangian analogue of the symplectic camel theorem. Let us recall its statement. Let \[ \Omega= \Omega_{\mathbb{R}^{2n}}= dx\wedge dy= \sum_{j=1}^n dx_j \wedge dy_j \] be a standard symplectic form, \(z= x+iy\). Let \(\mathbb{R}_{\pm}^{2n}= \{z\in \mathbb{R}^{2n}\); \(y_n \gtrless 0\}\). Then the camel theorem says that if \(n\geq 2\) and \(W\) is a (bounded) open set with \(\overline{W} \subset \mathbb{R}_-^{2n}\) and \(c_{gf}(W)> \pi\eta^2\), then it is impossible to find a Hamiltonian isotopy \(\Phi_t\), \(t\in [0,1]\) of \(\mathbb{R}^{2n}\) with compact support in \(\mathbb{R}^{2n} \setminus \Sigma_\eta\), such that \(\Phi_1(W) \subset \mathbb{R}_+^{2n}\), where by \(c_{gf}(W)\) we denote a symplectic capacity due to Viterbo and \(\Sigma_\eta= \{z\in \mathbb{R}^{2n}\); \(y_n= 0\), \(|z|\geq \eta\}\). The main result of the author states that there are compact Lagrangian submanifolds of \(\mathbb{R}^{2n}\) that cannot be moved through a small hole by a global Hamiltonian isotopy with compact support.
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Lagrangian camel
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Lagrangian submanifolds
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Hamiltonian isotopy
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