Friday, 3 August 2007

sg.symplectic geometry - Hamiltonian displaceability of tori in symplectic balls

Here is my first try at a question, which is a really easy to state question
about displaceability:



Let $D$ be the unit disk in the complex plane $D = { |z| leq 1 }$ equipped
with its standard symplectic form and for $r in (0,1)$ let $S(r) subset D$ be the Lagrangian circle of radius $r$ centered at $0$, enclosing area $pi r^2$.



Question: for which $r_1,ldots, r_n$ is the Lagrangian torus
$S(r_1) times ldots times S(r_n)$ Hamiltonian displaceable in $D^n$?



Conjecture: for a given $r_1,ldots, r_n$, the Lagrangian is non-displaceable iff
$r_j^2 ge 1/2$ for all $j$.



Known: Using McDuff's probes, one can see that if some $r_j^2 < 1/2$, then the Lagrangian is displaceable. I think I can show that if each $r_j^2$ lies in the set ${ 1/2, 2/3,3/4, ldots }$ then the Lagrangian is non-displaceable, by embedding D^n in a product of weighted projective lines and showing the Floer homology of the Lagrangian is non-vanishing. But there must be a way of doing better.



Sub-question: (which came out of a discussion with Abouzaid): is there a Floer-theoretic
way of seeing the non-displaceability of $S(r)$ for $r^2 ge 1/2$? This is easy
to prove by elementary means.

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