Realizability in tropical geometry and unobstructedness of Lagrangian submanifolds

We say that a tropical subvariety V R n is B-realizable if it can be lifted to an analytic subset of ./ n .When V is a smooth curve or hypersurface, there always exists a Lagrangian submanifold lift L V .C / n .We prove that whenever L V has well-defined Floer cohomology, we can find for each point of V a Lagrangian torus brane whose Lagrangian intersection Floer cohomology with L V is nonvanishing.Assuming an appropriate homological mirror symmetry result holds for toric varieties, it follows that whenever L V is a Lagrangian submanifold that can be made unobstructed by a bounding cochain, the tropical subvariety V is B-realizable.As an application, we show that the Lagrangian lift of a genus-0 tropical curve is unobstructed, thereby giving a purely symplectic argument for Nishinou and Siebert's proof that genus-0 tropical curves are B-realizable.We also prove that tropical curves inside tropical abelian surfaces are B-realizable.

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Geometry & Topology
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2025-06-27
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https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2025.29.1909
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Realizability in tropical geometry and unobstructedness of Lagrangian submanifolds

J. Hicks
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Realizability in tropical geometry and unobstructedness of Lagrangian submanifolds

J. Hicks
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Abstract

We say that a tropical subvariety V R n is B-realizable if it can be lifted to an analytic subset of ./ n .When V is a smooth curve or hypersurface, there always exists a Lagrangian submanifold lift L V .C / n .We prove that whenever L V has well-defined Floer cohomology, we can find for each point of V a Lagrangian torus brane whose Lagrangian intersection Floer cohomology with L V is nonvanishing.Assuming an appropriate homological mirror symmetry result holds for toric varieties, it follows that whenever L V is a Lagrangian submanifold that can be made unobstructed by a bounding cochain, the tropical subvariety V is B-realizable.As an application, we show that the Lagrangian lift of a genus-0 tropical curve is unobstructed, thereby giving a purely symplectic argument for Nishinou and Siebert's proof that genus-0 tropical curves are B-realizable.We also prove that tropical curves inside tropical abelian surfaces are B-realizable.

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