New applications of Luttinger's surgery (Q1842234)

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    New applications of Luttinger's surgery (English)
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    12 January 1997
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    Summary: Recently \textit{Karl Luttinger} [Lagrangian tori in \(\mathbb{R}^4\), J. Differ. Geom. 42, No. 2, 220-228 (1995)] made a remarkable observation that certain surgeries along a Lagrangian 2-torus in the standard symplectic space \((\mathbb{C}^2, \omega)\) do not change the ambient topology. As a consequence he found restrictions on isotopy classes of embeddings \(\mathbb{T}^2\to \mathbb{C}^2\) which can be represented by Lagrangian ones. In this paper, we discuss some new applications of this technique to linking of Lagrangian 2-tori in \(\mathbb{C}^2\), to contact geometry on the 3-torus as well as to study of complex structures with pseudo-convex boundary on \(\mathbb{T}^2 \times \mathbb{D}^2\).
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    surgeries
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    Lagrangian 2-torus
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    symplectic space
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    isotopy classes
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    embeddings
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    contact geometry
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    complex structures
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    pseudo-convex boundary
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