Volume minimization of Lagrangian submanifolds under Hamiltonian deformations (Q1319283)

We introduce the problem of minimizing the volume of Lagrangian submanifolds under Hamiltonian deformations in Kähler manifolds. We state the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equation and derive its second variation formula. We apply this second variation formula to study the stability property of the standard Lagrangian tori \(S^ 1(r_ 1)\times \cdots \times S^ 1(r_ n)\) in \(\mathbb{C}^ n\) which turn out to satisfy the above Euler-Lagrange equation. We prove that the second variation is (semi)-positive and that the null space is the span of normal projections of the infinitesimal holomorphic isometries of \(\mathbb{C}^ n\) which is isomorphic to the Lie algebra \(su(n)\odot \mathbb{C}^ n\). This in particular proves that these tori are isolated local minima (up to isometries) of volume inside the Hamiltonian deformations.