Monotone Lagrangian submanifolds of ℂn and toric topology

Abstract

Mironov, Panov and Kotelskiy studied Hamiltonian-minimal Lagrangians inside $\mathbb{C}^n$. They associated a closed embedded Lagrangian $L$ to each Delzant polytope $P$. In this paper we develop their ideas and prove that $L$ is monotone if and only if the polytope $P$ is Fano. In some examples, we further compute the minimal Maslov numbers. Namely, let $\mathcal{N}\to T^k$ be some fibration over the $k$-dimensional torus with a fiber equal to either $S^k \times S^l$, or $S^k \times S^l \times S^m$, or $\#_5(S^{2p-1} \times S^{n-2p-2})$. We construct monotone Lagrangian embeddings $\mathcal{N} \subset \mathbb{C}^n$ with different minimal Maslov number, and therefore distinct up to Lagrangian isotopy. Moreover, we show that some of our embeddings are smoothly isotopic but not Lagrangian isotopic.