Monotone Lagrange submanifolds of linear spaces and the Maslov class in cotangent bundles (Q916173)

For a Lagrange embedding \(f: W\to V\) consider the non-negative generator \(m(f)\) of the subgroup \(\mu(H_1(W;\mathbb{Z}))\subset \mathbb{Z}\), where \(\mu\) is the Maslov class and \(V\) is either \(\mathbb{C}^n\) or \(T^*W\). The paper is devoted to the studying of the invariant \(m(f)\). By definition a Lagrange embedding is monotone if the Maslov class of every cycle is proportional to its symplectic area. We show that for monotone Lagrange embedding \(f\) of a closed manifold into \(\mathbb{C}^n\) the following estimate holds: \(0<m(f)\leq n+1\). The proof is based on Gromov's theory of pseudo-holomorphic curves. We apply this estimate in order to prove that the Maslov class is trivial for some exact Lagrange embeddings \(W\to T^*W\) with projection on the base inducing an isomorphism of \(H^1(W;\mathbb{Z})\), e.g. for the case \(W=S^{n_1}\times \cdots \times S^{n_1 }\times T^d\).