Area comparison results for isotropic surfaces (Q867367)

In this paper the author establishes some comparison results concerning isotropic surfaces in symplectic manifolds. The original motivation comes from a paper of \textit{W. Qiu} [Math. Res. Lett. 8, No.~5--6, 693--701 (2001; Zbl 1019.53039)], who proved that for some constant C, any curve \(\gamma\) in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) of length \(l\) is the boundary of an isotropic surface of area at most C\(l^2\). Let \(P\) be a \(2\)-plane in \(\mathbb{C}^n\), and let \(D\) be a bounded region in \(P\), with a piecewise smooth boundary. Denote by \(I(D)\) the infimum of the areas of all isotropic surfaces in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) with the same boundary as \(D\). The author shows that there exists a constant \(\lambda_{P}^n\) such that \(I(D)=\lambda_P^n\cdot \text{Area}(D)\). Some estimates are derived for \(\lambda_P^n\), namely \(\lambda_P^n<\frac{3\pi}{2\sqrt{2}}\) when \(P\) is not complex, while \(\lambda_C^n\geq 2\) and \(\lambda_C^2\geq 3\) for a complex plane \(C\subset\mathbb{C}^n\). The upper bound is obtained by explicit parametrizations of isotropic Möbius bands. The lower bounds come out through an integral-geometric formula due to \textit{R. Howard} [Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 509 (1993; Zbl 0810.53057)], together with a new formula for areas of surfaces in \(\mathbb{C}^n\). Some interesting consequences are then discussed