Lagrangian barriers and symplectic embeddings (Q5945508)

The author provides a general decomposition technique for symplectic Kähler manifolds. It is proven that every symplectic Kähler manifold \((M,\Omega)\) with integral \([\Omega]\) decomposes into a disjoint union \((M,\Omega)= (E,\omega_0)\cup\Delta\), where \((E,\omega_0)\) is a disc bundle endowed with a standard symplectic structure \(\omega_0\) and \(\Delta\) is an isotropic CW-complex. The explicit computations of this decomposition for several examples are performed. As an application, it is established that there exist symplectically irremovable intersections between contractible domains and Lagrangian submanifolds. It is proved that every symplectic embedding of a ball \(B^{2n}(\lambda)\) of radius \(\lambda^2\geq 1/2\) into the projective space \(\mathbb{C} P^n\) must intersect the standard Lagrangian real projective space \(\mathbb{R} P^n\subset \mathbb{C} P^n\) (Lagrangian barriers phenomenon).