Lagrangian Floer theory on Woodward's multiplicity-free $U(2)$-manifolds

TL;DR

This paper explores Lagrangian Floer theory on multiplicity-free $U(2)$-manifolds, identifying non-displaceable Lagrangians, displaceability of others, and proving the Fukaya category's generation property.

Contribution

It extends Floer theory to a new class of non-toric multiplicity-free manifolds, employing symplectic cuts and probe methods to analyze Lagrangian submanifolds.

Findings

Identified non-displaceable Lagrangian tori via potential functions.

Most Lagrangian submanifolds are shown to be displaceable.

Fukaya subcategory generated by these branes satisfies the generation criterion.

Abstract

In this paper, we study a family of symplectic manifolds introduced by Woodward. These manifolds belong to the broader class of \emph{multiplicity-free} Hamiltonian $G$-manifolds, a generalization of toric manifolds for non-abelian Hamiltonian group actions. Prominent examples of multiplicity-free spaces include coadjoint orbits of $U(n)$ and $SO(n)$ equipped with multiplicity-free $U(n-1)$- and $SO(n-1)$-actions, respectively. Although these multiplicity-free $U(2)$-manifolds are not toric, we may study a family of Lagrangian tori by performing a symplectic cut that allows us to apply the toric Lagrangian Floer theory. In particular, we employ Venugopalan--Woodward's study of pseudoholomorphic curves under symplectic cuts to obtain the leading order potential. This allows us to identify a number of critical points of the potential function which correspond to a non-displaceable Lagrangian submanifold. Moreover, we adapt McDuff's probe method to show that the majority of the other Lagrangian submanifolds in these spaces are displaceable. Finally, we prove that the open-closed map for the Fukaya subcategory generated by these branes is an isomorphism. It follows that they satisfy Abouzaid--Fukaya--Oh--Ohta--Ono's generation criterion.