Local exotic tori (Q6975774)

This paper is motivated by the classification question of Lagrangian submanifolds up to symplectomorphisms of the ambient symplectic manifold. Its aim is to show that infinitely many Lagrangian tori, which cannot be mapped to one another by an ambient symplectomorphism, occur in every open set of every geometrically bounded symplectic manifold of dimension at least six. \N\NThe second main point of this paper is that it sheds some light on the (un)importance of monotonicity when it comes to the study of exotic tori. For a broad class of symplectic manifolds of dimension at least six, the author finds the following new phenomenon: there exist local exotic Lagrangian tori. More specifically, let \(X\) be a geometrically bounded symplectic manifold of dimension at least six. It is shown that every open subset of \(X\) contains infinitely many Lagrangian tori which are distinct up to symplectomorphisms of \(X\) while being Lagrangian isotopic and having the same classical invariants. \N\NThe proof relies on a locality property of the displacement energy germ, which allows to compute it in a Darboux chart. Since these tori are not monotone, bubbling may occur and the count of Maslov index two \(J\)-holomorphic disks does not yield an invariant.\N\NThe paper is organized as follows: Section 1 is an introduction to the subject and statement of results. Section 2 provides background on symplectic reduction, integral geometry, displacement energy and the displacement energy germ which is used in later sections. Section 3 gives an overview of almost toric fibrations (ATFs), mutations of ATFs on \(\mathbb{CP}^2\) and a computation of the displacement energy germ of certain almost toric fibres. Section 4 is devoted to some constructions and proofs of the results. In Section 5, the author discusses open questions, he gives an outlook on future work in dimension four and speculate on mutations of Lagrangian torus fibrations in dimensions greater than or equal to six, which may lead to a theory of almost toric fibrations in these dimensions.