Analysis shows existence of holomorphic disks in compact Lagrangian surfaces, suggesting new insights into J-holomorphic properties.
Let L be a compact oriented Lagrangian surface in a K\"ahler surface endowed with a complete Riemannian metric (compatible with the symplectic structure and the complex structure) with bounded sectional curvatures and a positive lower bound on injectivity radius. We show that for every nontrivial class [γ] of the fundamental group π₁(L) such that γ bounds a topological disk in M, there exists a holomorphic disk whose boundary belongs to L and is freely homotopic to γ on L. This answers a question of Bennequin on existence of J-holomorphic disks. Nonexistence of exact Lagrangian embeddings of certain surfaces is established in such K\"ahler surface if the fundamental form is exact. In the almost K\"ahler setting, especially, the cotangent bundles of compact manifolds, results on nonexistence of J-holomorphic disks and existence of minimizers of the partial energies in the sense of A. Lichnerowicz are obtained.
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Jingyi Chen (2025) studied this question.
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