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Title: On Newton polytopes of Lagrangian augmentations
Abstract

This note explores the use of Newton polytopes in the study of Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian submanifolds. In particular, we show that Newton polytopes associated to augmented values of Reeb chords can distinguish infinitely many distinct Lagrangian fillings, both for Legendrian links and higher dimensional Legendrian spheres. The computations we perform work in finite characteristic, which significantly simplifies arguments and also allows us to show that there exist Legendrian links with infinitely many nonorientable exact Lagrangian fillings.

 
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NSF-PAR ID:
10489903
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
ISSN:
0024-6093
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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