On the minimal symplectic area of Lagrangians

Abstract

We show that the minimal symplectic area of Lagrangian submanifolds are universally bounded in symplectically aspherical domains with vanishing symplectic cohomology. If an exact domain admits a k-semidilation, then the minimal symplectic area is universally bounded for K(π, 1)-Lagrangians. As a corollary, we show that Arnold chord conjecture holds for the following four cases: (1) Y admits an exact filling with SH * (W ) = 0 (for some ring coefficient); (2) Y admits a symplectically aspherical filling with SH * (W ) = 0 and simply connected Legendrians; (3) Y admits an exact filling with a k-semi-dilation and the Legendrian is a K(π, 1) space; (4) Y is the cosphere bundle S * Q with π2(Q) → H2(Q) nontrivial and the Legendrian has trivial π2. In addition, we obtain the existence of homoclinic orbits in case (1). We also provide many more examples with k-semi-dilations in all dimensions ≥ 4.