Pinwheels as Lagrangian barriers

DOI10.1142/S0219199723500207MaRDI QIDQ6412578zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joé Brendel, Felix Schlenk

Publication date 1 October 2022

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219199723500207

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov and Lagrange spectra and generalizations (11J06) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Fiberings with singularities in algebraic topology (55R55)

Abstract: The complex projective plane CP^2 contains certain Lagrangian CW-complexes called pinwheels, which have interesting rigidity properties related to solutions of the Markov equation. We compute the Gromov width of the complement of pinwheels and show that it is strictly smaller than the Gromov width of CP^2, meaning that pinwheels are Lagrangian barriers in the sense of Biran. The accumulation points of the set of these Gromov widths are in a simple bijection with the Lagrange spectrum below 3.

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