Surgery on Lagrangian and Legendrian singularities

DOI10.1007/S000390050089MaRDI QIDQ1293237zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Entov

Publication date 18 July 2000

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9706005

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian fibre bundleLagrangian singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05)

Abstract: Let $pi:EoM$ be a smooth fiber bundle whose total space is a symplectic manifold and whose fibers are Lagrangian. Let $L$ be an embedded Lagrangian submanifold of $E$. In the paper we address the following question: how can one simplify the singularities of the projection $pi:LoM$ by a Hamiltonian isotopy of $L$ inside $E$? We give an answer in the case when $dimL=2$ and both $L$ and $M$ are orientable. A weaker version of the result is proved in the higher-dimensional case. Similar results hold in the contact category. As a corollary one gets an answer to one of the questions of V.Arnold about the four cusps on the caustic in the case of the Lagrangian collapse. As another corollary we disprove Y.Chekanov's conjecture about singularities of the Lagrangian projection of certain Lagrangian tori in $R^4$.

Review text

Let \(\pi : E \rightarrow M\) be a Lagrangian fiber bundle i.e. \(\pi : E \rightarrow M\) is a smooth fiber bundle, \(E\) is symplectic and the fibers are Lagrangian submanifolds of \(E\). Let \(L\) be an embedded Lagrangian submanifold of \(E\). The restriction of \(\pi\) to \(L\) is called the Lagrangian projection of \(L\) and the singularities of this mapping are called the Lagrangian singularities of \(L\). The author shows that all the Lagrangian singularities higher folds can be killed by a \(C^0\)-small Hamiltonian isotopy maybe at the expense of creating additional folds, provided that there is no formal obstruction for such a homotopy. The result is proved in the case when \(L\) is a closed-orientable 2-dimensional surface and the weaker version of the statement is proved in higher-dimensional case. Similar results hold in contact category. The author proves the results using the methods which originate from \textit{Ya. Eliashberg} [Math. USSR, Izv. 6, 1302-1326 (1972); translation from Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. Mat. 36, 1321-1347(1972; Zbl 0273.57014)].

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