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Tight Lagrangian homology spheres in compact homogeneous Kähler manifolds

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For any irreducible compact homogeneous Kähler manifold, we classify the compact tight Lagrangian submanifolds which have the ℤ2-homology of a sphere.

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  1. Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 1010, São Paulo, SP, 05508-090, Brazil

    Claudio Gorodski

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica “Ulisse Dini”, Università di Firenze, V.le Morgagni 67/A, 50100, Firenze, Italy

    Fabio Podestà

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Correspondence to Claudio Gorodski.

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The first author was partially supported by the CNPq Federal Grant 303038/2013-6 and Fapesp project 2011/21362-2.

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Gorodski, C., Podestà, F. Tight Lagrangian homology spheres in compact homogeneous Kähler manifolds. Isr. J. Math. 206, 413–429 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-014-1145-5

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