Lagrangian Poincaré recurrence conjecture

Let (X,ω)(X,\omega) be a symplectic manifold, let ψHam(X,ω)\psi\in\operatorname{Ham}(X,\omega), and let L(X,ω)L\subset(X,\omega) be a closed Lagrangian submanifold. Lagrangian Poincaré recurrence conjecture. There exists a sequence kik_i\to\infty of natural numbers such that

ψki(L)L.\psi^{k_i}(L)\cap L\neq\varnothing.

Furthermore, the density of the sequence kik_i is related to a symplectic capacity of LL. The conjecture is disproved: counterexamples are known in all symplectic manifolds of dimensions at least six and in some symplectic manifolds of dimension four.

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Primary source

Joé Brendel and Joontae Kim, “Lagrangian split tori in S^2 S^2 and billiards”, arXiv:2502.03324 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1812.00299, arXiv:1712.09766.

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