Arnold–Givental conjecture for real Lagrangian fixed point sets

A real structure on a symplectic manifold (M,ω)(M,\omega) is an antisymplectic involution ρ ⁣:MM\rho\colon M\to M satisfying

ρ2=idM,ρω=ω.\rho^2=\operatorname{id}|_M,\qquad \rho^*\omega=-\omega.

Let

L:=Fix(ρ)ML:=\operatorname{Fix}(\rho)\subset M

be its fixed point set, which is a (possibly empty) Lagrangian submanifold. The triple (M,ω,ρ)(M,\omega,\rho) is a real symplectic manifold.

Arnold–Givental conjecture. Assume that (M,ω,ρ)(M,\omega,\rho) is a closed real symplectic manifold and ϕH\phi_H is a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism such that LL and ϕH(L)\phi_H(L) intersect transversally. Then

#(LϕH(L))i=0dim(L)bi(L;Z2).\#(L\cap\phi_H(L))\geq\sum_{i=0}^{\operatorname{dim}(L)} b_i(L;\mathbb{Z}_2).

The conjecture is a Hamiltonian nondisplaceability statement: it predicts that every transverse Hamiltonian image of the real Lagrangian fixed point set has at least the total number of Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-Betti numbers of LL intersection points. Its resolution status is not specified in the supplied text.

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Primary source

Urs Frauenfelder, “Smooth nondisplaceability for fixed point sets of involutions”, arXiv:1708.09628 (2017).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2017). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1108.0260.

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