Disjoinable Lagrangian spheres and dilations (Q742831)

The study of the disjoinable Lagrangian spheres and dilations is firstly motivated by an open problem in symplectic topology, concerning the restrictions on collections of Lagrangian submanifolds of a symplectic manifold, which are pairwise disjoint. This can be seen as an attempt to bound the dimension and complexity of the considered symplectic manifold, similarly to the property that a closed oriented surface of genus \(g\) larger than 1 can contain no more than \(3g - 3\) simple closed curves, which are pairwise disjoint. Another motivation of the study is the relation between Lagrangian spheres and nodal degenerations in algebraic geometry. For the three-dimensional case, one quotes \textit{I. Smith} et al. [J. Differ. Geom. 62, No. 2, 209--242 (2002; Zbl 1071.53541)]. In the introduction the author presents the motivation for specializing to Lagrangian spheres, classification results for the Fukaya category, manifolds with semisimple quantum cohomology, and the main results of the paper, namely Theorems 1.4--1.8, which give restrictions on collections \((L_1,\dots,L_r)\) of closed Lagrangian submanifolds of Liouville manifolds and Milnor fibres. In these theorems the complex dimension \(n\) is odd, but the author mentions that in the case when \(n\) is even, there is an analogue of Theorem 1.5, where instead of the semi-characteristic, half of the Euler characteristic is involved. Section 2 focuses on constructing dilations on the Milnor fibres, involved in Theorems 1.6--1.8. The geometric context for Floer cohomology is similar to that in [the author and \textit{J. P. Solomon}, Geom. Funct. Anal. 22, No. 2, 443--477 (2012; Zbl 1250.53078)]. In Section 3 the author introduces several algebraic structures associated to Hamiltonian Floer cohomology groups, and presents their properties, used in the proofs of Theorems 1.4--1.8. Next, the author deals with the families of Riemann surfaces giving rise (in Section 4) to the cochain level operations, which underlie the above mentioned constructions. Section 5 furnishes some technical aspects concerning the extension of the Floer-theoretic settings from Section 2 to the operations which appear in Section 4. The last part of the paper gives another motivation for the topic, providing some constructions used in topology and algebraic geometry.