Lagrangian spheres, symplectic surfaces and the symplectic mapping class group

DOI10.2140/GT.2012.16.1121zbMATH Open1253.53073arXiv1012.4146OpenAlexW1998272992MaRDI QIDQ441111FDOQ441111

Tian-Jun Li, Weiwei Wu

Publication date: 20 August 2012

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a Lagrangian sphere in a symplectic 4-manifold $(M,omega)$ with $b^{+}=1$, we find embedded symplectic surfaces intersecting it minimally. When the Kodaira dimension $kappa$ of $(M,omega)$ is $-infty$, this minimal intersection property turns out to be very powerful for both the uniqueness and existence problems of Lagrangian spheres. On the uniqueness side, for a symplectic rational manifold and any class which is not characteristic and ternary, we show that homologous Lagrangian spheres are smoothly isotopic, and when the Euler number is less than 8, we generalize Hind and Evans' Hamiltonian uniqueness in the monotone case. On the existence side, when $kappa=-infty$, we give a characterization of classes represented by Lagrangian spheres, which enables us to describe the non-Torelli part of the symplectic mapping class group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.4146

zbMATH Keywords

Kodaira dimensionsymplectomorphism groupLagrangian sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42)

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