Pinwheels in symplectic rational and ruled surfaces and non-squeezing of rational homology balls

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Autori principali: Adaloglou, Nikolas, Hauber, Johannes
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author Adaloglou, Nikolas
Hauber, Johannes
author_facet Adaloglou, Nikolas
Hauber, Johannes
contents We use almost toric fibrations and the symplectic rational blow-up to determine when certain Lagrangian pinwheels, which we call liminal, embed in symplectic rational and ruled surfaces. The case of $L_{2,1}$-pinwheels, namely Lagrangian $\mathbb{R}P^2$'s, answers a question of Kronheimer in the negative, exhibiting a symplectic non-spin $4$-manifold that does not carry a Lagrangian $\mathbb{R}P^2$. In addition, we provide applications to symplectic embeddings of rational homology balls. In particular, we generalize Gromov's classical non-squeezing theorem by proving that a rational homology ball $B_{n,1}(1)$ embeds into the rational homology cylinder $B_{n,1}(α,\infty)$ if and only if $α\geq 1$. Along the way, we prove various properties of Lagrangian pinwheels of independent interest, such as describing their homological complement, providing a short proof that performing a symplectic rational blow-up of a Lagrangian pinwheel in a positive symplectic rational manifold yields a symplectic manifold which is also rational, and showing a self-intersection formula for Lagrangian pinwheels.
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spellingShingle Pinwheels in symplectic rational and ruled surfaces and non-squeezing of rational homology balls
Adaloglou, Nikolas
Hauber, Johannes
Symplectic Geometry
Algebraic Geometry
Geometric Topology
53Dxx
We use almost toric fibrations and the symplectic rational blow-up to determine when certain Lagrangian pinwheels, which we call liminal, embed in symplectic rational and ruled surfaces. The case of $L_{2,1}$-pinwheels, namely Lagrangian $\mathbb{R}P^2$'s, answers a question of Kronheimer in the negative, exhibiting a symplectic non-spin $4$-manifold that does not carry a Lagrangian $\mathbb{R}P^2$. In addition, we provide applications to symplectic embeddings of rational homology balls. In particular, we generalize Gromov's classical non-squeezing theorem by proving that a rational homology ball $B_{n,1}(1)$ embeds into the rational homology cylinder $B_{n,1}(α,\infty)$ if and only if $α\geq 1$. Along the way, we prove various properties of Lagrangian pinwheels of independent interest, such as describing their homological complement, providing a short proof that performing a symplectic rational blow-up of a Lagrangian pinwheel in a positive symplectic rational manifold yields a symplectic manifold which is also rational, and showing a self-intersection formula for Lagrangian pinwheels.
title Pinwheels in symplectic rational and ruled surfaces and non-squeezing of rational homology balls
topic Symplectic Geometry
Algebraic Geometry
Geometric Topology
53Dxx
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16250