Spherical Lagrangians via ball packings and symplectic cutting

Matthew Strom Borman, Tian Jun Li, Weiwei Wu

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Abstract

In this paper, we prove the connectedness of symplectic ball packings in the complement of a spherical Lagrangian, S2 or ℝℙ2, in symplectic manifolds that are rational or ruled. Via a symplectic cutting construction, this is a natural extension of McDuff's connectedness of ball packings in other settings and this result has applications to several different questions: smooth knotting and unknottedness results for spherical Lagrangians, the transitivity of the action of the symplectic Torelli group, classifying Lagrangian isotopy classes in the presence of knotting, and detecting Floer-theoretically essential Lagrangian tori in the del Pezzo surfaces.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)261-283
Number of pages23
JournalSelecta Mathematica, New Series
Volume20
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Lagrangian knots
  • Rational manifolds
  • Symplectic ball packing
  • Symplectic cutting
  • Symplectic manifolds

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Mathematics
  • General Physics and Astronomy

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Spherical Lagrangians via ball packings and symplectic cutting'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this