The nearby Lagrangian conjecture for pinwheels

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Main Authors: Adaloglou, Nikolas, Gómez, Gerard Bargalló i, Hauber, Johannes
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Published: 2026
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author Adaloglou, Nikolas
Gómez, Gerard Bargalló i
Hauber, Johannes
author_facet Adaloglou, Nikolas
Gómez, Gerard Bargalló i
Hauber, Johannes
contents The Lagrangian skeleton of the rational homology ball $B_{p,q}$, for $0<q<p$ coprime integers, is an immersed but not embedded Lagrangian, called a $(p,q)$-pinwheel. We show that any two embeddings of Lagrangian $(p,q)$-pinwheels in $B_{p,q}$ are related by a compactly supported Hamiltonian isotopy, establishing Arnold's nearby Lagrangian conjecture for this wide class of singular Lagrangians. Our proof has two largely independent parts: the first uses neck-stretching and the symplectic rational blow-up to understand embeddings of pinwheels up to symplectomorphism; the second computes that $\text{Symp}_c(B_{p,q})$ is generated by a twist about the pinwheel, which we call the pintwist $τ_{p,q}$. We provide three applications of our methods: Gromov non-squeezing for pin-balls; a new proof of the local Lagrangian unknotting theorem of Eliashberg--Polterovich; and that the only Lagrangian $(n,m)$-pinwheel in $B_{p,q}$ is of type $(p,q)$.
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spellingShingle The nearby Lagrangian conjecture for pinwheels
Adaloglou, Nikolas
Gómez, Gerard Bargalló i
Hauber, Johannes
Symplectic Geometry
Algebraic Geometry
Differential Geometry
Geometric Topology
53D35
The Lagrangian skeleton of the rational homology ball $B_{p,q}$, for $0<q<p$ coprime integers, is an immersed but not embedded Lagrangian, called a $(p,q)$-pinwheel. We show that any two embeddings of Lagrangian $(p,q)$-pinwheels in $B_{p,q}$ are related by a compactly supported Hamiltonian isotopy, establishing Arnold's nearby Lagrangian conjecture for this wide class of singular Lagrangians. Our proof has two largely independent parts: the first uses neck-stretching and the symplectic rational blow-up to understand embeddings of pinwheels up to symplectomorphism; the second computes that $\text{Symp}_c(B_{p,q})$ is generated by a twist about the pinwheel, which we call the pintwist $τ_{p,q}$. We provide three applications of our methods: Gromov non-squeezing for pin-balls; a new proof of the local Lagrangian unknotting theorem of Eliashberg--Polterovich; and that the only Lagrangian $(n,m)$-pinwheel in $B_{p,q}$ is of type $(p,q)$.
title The nearby Lagrangian conjecture for pinwheels
topic Symplectic Geometry
Algebraic Geometry
Differential Geometry
Geometric Topology
53D35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22473