The relative Gromov width of Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrians

Abstract

We obtain upper and lower bounds for the relative Gromov width of Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds. Upper bounds arise from the existence of J-holomorphic disks with boundary on the Lagrangian cobordism that pass through the center of a given symplectically embedded ball. The areas of these disks -and hence the sizes of these balls -are controlled by a real-valued fundamental capacity, a quantity derived from the algebraic structure of filtered linearized Legendrian Contact Homology of the Legendrian at the top of the cobordism. Lower bounds come from explicit constructions that use neighborhoods of Reeb chords in the Legendrian ends. We also study relationships between the relative Gromov width and another quantitative measurement, the length of a cobordism between two Legendrian submanifolds.

Legendrian Satellites and Decomposable Cobordisms

“…Recall that a symplectomorphism φ : (M 1 , dα 1 ) → (M 2 , dα 2 ) is exact when φ * (α 2 ) = α 1 + dθ for some function θ on M 1 . Though such an extension of the Weinstein Neighborhood Theorem has been assumed in the literature in, for example, [8,25], we will discuss a proof of this folklore theorem here. Our discussion has the added benefit of introducing notation that will be useful in later sections.…”