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Lagrangian skeletons, periodic geodesic flows and symplectic cuttings

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In this paper, we investigate symplectic manifolds endowed with a Morse–Bott function with only two critical submanifolds, one of which is Lagrangian while the other one is symplectic.

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Audin, M. Lagrangian skeletons, periodic geodesic flows and symplectic cuttings. manuscripta math. 124, 533–550 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-007-0134-y

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