Constraints on exact Lagrangians in cotangent bundles of manifolds fibered over the circle (Q843196)

The purpose of this paper is to establish new topological obstructions to the existence of exact Lagrangian submanifolds \(L \subset T^*M\) in the case that \(M\) is the total space of a fibration over the circle. The author shows that \(\pi_1(L)\) cannot be a nontrivial free product and that any presentation of it must have two more generators than relations. Using the Lagrangian isotopy \(L_t=L+t\alpha\), where \(\alpha = f^* d\theta\) and \(f:M\to S^1\) is the fibering, the author sets up a Floer-type complex \(C_\bullet(L,L_t)\), which vanishes for \(t \gg 0\) and whose homology is isomorphic to the Novikov homology \(H_*(L,p^* u)\), where \(p:L \to M\) denotes the projection and \(u \in H^1(M;{\mathbb Z})\) the cohomology class of \(\alpha.\) The conditions on \(\pi_1(L)\) in the main result are then deduced from the vanishing of the Novikov homology.