On the minimal symplectic area of Lagrangians

DOI10.4310/JSG.2022.V20.N6.A5MaRDI QIDQ6042877zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 4 May 2023

Published in The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03134

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian submanifoldsminimal symplectic area

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We show that the minimal symplectic area of Lagrangian submanifolds are universally bounded in symplectically aspherical domains with vanishing symplectic cohomology. If an exact domain admits a $k$-semi-dilation, then the minimal symplectic area is universally bounded for $K(pi,1)$-Lagrangians. As a corollary, we show that Arnol'd chord conjecture holds for the following four cases: (1) $Y$ admits an exact filling with $S{H}^{\ast }(W)=0$ (for some ring coefficient); (2) $Y$ admits a symplectically aspherical filling with $S{H}^{\ast }(W)=0$ and simply connected Legendrians; (3) $Y$ admits an exact filling with a $k$-semi-dilation and the Legendrian is a $K(pi,1)$ space; (4) $Y$ is the cosphere bundle $S^{\ast }Q$ with $p{i}_2(Q)o{H}_2(Q)$ nontrivial and the Legendrian has trivial $p{i}_2$. In addition, we obtain the existence of homoclinic orbits in case (1). We also provide many more examples with $k$-semi-dilations in all dimensions $ge4$.

Review text

The ``chord conjecture of Arnol'd asks whether any closed Legendrian in a closed contact manifold carries a Reeb chord for any contact form. The previous work of \textit{K. Mohnke} [Ann. Math. (2) 154, No. 1, 219--222 (2001; Zbl 1007.53065)] shows that a sufficient condition is that the minimal symplectic area of the Lagrangian is finite. The main goal of this paper is to prove that for a symplectically aspherical domain, the vanishing of symplectic cohomology implies the finiteness of the symplectic area. Similarly, it proves that the existence of a \(k\)-semi-dilation on exact domains implies the finiteness of area for \(K(\pi,1)\) Lagrangians. The main technique is to construct a quantitative version of the Viterbo restriction map \(SH^*(W)\to SH^*(T^*L)\), with the truncation energy level depending on the minimal area. The final part of the paper finds some new examples with \(k\)-semi-dilations, by some Gromov-Witten type computation of independent interest.

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