Seminar series
Date
Mon, 29 Apr 2013
Time
15:45 - 16:45
Location
L3
Speaker
Ivan Smith
Organisation
Cambridge

Exact Lagrangian immersions are governed by an h-principle, whilst exact Lagrangian

embeddings are well-known to be constrained by strong rigidity theorems coming from

holomorphic curve theory. We consider exact Lagrangian immersions in Euclidean space with a

prescribed number of double points, and find that the borderline between flexibility and

rigidity is more delicate than had been imagined. The main result obtains constraints on such

immersions with exactly one double point which go beyond the usual setting of Morse or Floer

theory. This is joint work with Tobias Ekholm, and in part with Ekholm, Eliashberg and Murphy.

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