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Casals-Gorsky-Gorsky-Simental realized all positroid strata of the complex Grassmannian as augmentation varieties of Legendrians called positroid links. We prove that the partial order on strata induced by Zariski closure also has a symplectic interpretation, given by exact Lagrangian cobordism.
Affine cluster varieties are covered up to codimension 2 by open algebraic tori. We put forth a general conjecture (based on earlier conversation between Vivek Shende and the last author) characterizing their deep locus, i.e. the complement of all cluster charts, as the locus of points with non-trivial stabilizer under the action of cluster automorphisms. We use the diagrammatics of Demazure weaves to verify the conjecture for skew-symmetric cluster varieties of finite cluster type with arbitrary choice of frozens and for the top open positroid strata of Grassmannians $\mathrm{Gr}(2,n)$ and $\mathrm{Gr}(3,n)$. We illustrate how this already has applications in symplectic topology and mirror symmetry, by proving that the Fukaya category of Grassmannians $\mathrm{Gr}(2,2n+1)$ is split-generated by finitely many Lagrangian tori, and homological mirror symmetry holds with a Landau--Ginzburg model proposed by Rietsch. Finally, we study the geometry of the deep locus, and find that it can be singular and have several irreducible components of different dimensions, but they all are again cluster varieties in our examples in really full rank cases.
Under simplified axioms on moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic curves, we show that weakly unobstructed Fukaya algebras of Floer-nontrivial Lagrangians in a compact symplectic manifold must have curvature in the spectrum of an operator introduced by Dubrovin, which acts on the big quantum cohomology. We use the example of the complex Grassmannian $\operatorname{Gr}(2,4)$ to illustrate a decoupling phenomenon, where the eigenvalues of finite energy truncations become simple under explicit bulk-deformations.
Given a strictly concave rational PL function $ϕ$ on a complete $n$-dimensional fan $Σ$, we construct an exact symplectic structure of finite volume on $(\mathbb{C}^\times)^n$ and a family of functions $H_{ϕ,ε}$ called polyhedral Hamiltonians. We prove that for each $ε$ the one-periodic orbits of $H_{ϕ,ε}$ come in families corresponding to finitely many primitive lattice points of $Σ$ and determine their topology. When $ϕ$ is negative on the rays of $Σ$, we show that the level sets of polyhedral Hamiltonians are hypersurfaces of contact type. As a byproduct, this construction provides a dynamical model for the singularities of toric varieties obtained as degenerations of Fano manifolds in any dimension via Okounkov bodies.
We show that the monotone Lagrangian torus fiber of the Gelfand-Cetlin integrable system on the complex Grassmannian $\operatorname{Gr}(k,n)$ supports generators for all maximum modulus summands in the spectral decomposition of the Fukaya category over $\mathbb{C}$, generalizing the example of the Clifford torus in projective space. We introduce an action of the dihedral group $D_n$ on the Landau-Ginzburg mirror proposed by Marsh-Rietsch that makes it equivariant and use it to show that, given a lower modulus, the torus supports nonzero objects in none or many summands of the Fukaya category with that modulus. The alternative is controlled by the vanishing of rectangular Schur polynomials at the $n$-th roots of unity, and for $n=p$ prime this suffices to give a complete set of generators and prove homological mirror symmetry for $\operatorname{Gr}(k,p)$.
We describe an iterative construction of Lagrangian tori in the complex Grassmannian $\operatorname{Gr}(k,n)$, based on the cluster algebra structure of the coordinate ring of a mirror Landau-Ginzburg model proposed by Marsh-Rietsch. Each torus comes with a Laurent polynomial, and local systems controlled by the $k$-variables Schur polynomials at the $n$-th roots of unity. We use this data to give examples of monotone Lagrangian tori that are neither displaceable nor Hamiltonian isotopic to each other, and that support nonzero objects in different summands of the spectral decomposition of the Fukaya category over $\mathbb{C}$.