Nearby Lagrangians are simply homotopic
Also appears in collection : Jean-Morlet Chair: Moduli spaces in symplectic topology and in Gauge theory / Chaire Jean-Morlet : Espaces de modules en topologie symplectique et en théorie de Jauge
I will describe joint work with Thomas Kragh proving that closed exact Lagrangians in cotangent bundles are simply homotopy equivalent to the base. The main two ideas are (i) a Floer theoretic model for the Whitehead torsion of the projection from the Lagrangian to the base, and (ii) a large scale deformation of the Lagrangian which allows a computation of this torsion.