Constraints on exact Lagrangians in cotangent bundles of manifolds fibered over the circle

DOI10.4171/CMH/178MaRDI QIDQ843196zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mihai Damian

Publication date 29 September 2009

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0511, http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/show_pdf.php?issn=0010-2571&vol=84&iss=4&rank=1

zbMATH Keywords

dynamicsFloer homologyLagrangian embeddingsMolino structure theoryNovikov homologyrigid classesvariable classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Floer homology (57R58)

Abstract: We give topological obstructions to the existence of a closed exact Lagrangian submanifold in the cotangent bundle of a closed manifold M which is the total space of a fibration over the circle. For instance we show that the fundamental group of such a Lagrangian submanifold cannot be the free product of two non-trivial groups and that in any finite presentation of this group the difference between the number of generators and the number of relations is less than two.

Review text

The purpose of this paper is to establish new topological obstructions to the existence of exact Lagrangian submanifolds \(L \subset T^*M\) in the case that \(M\) is the total space of a fibration over the circle. The author shows that \(\pi_1(L)\) cannot be a nontrivial free product and that any presentation of it must have two more generators than relations. Using the Lagrangian isotopy \(L_t=L+t\alpha\), where \(\alpha = f^* d\theta\) and \(f:M\to S^1\) is the fibering, the author sets up a Floer-type complex \(C_\bullet(L,L_t)\), which vanishes for \(t \gg 0\) and whose homology is isomorphic to the Novikov homology \(H_*(L,p^* u)\), where \(p:L \to M\) denotes the projection and \(u \in H^1(M;{\mathbb Z})\) the cohomology class of \(\alpha.\) The conditions on \(\pi_1(L)\) in the main result are then deduced from the vanishing of the Novikov homology.

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