2411.16601
(Non)displaceability in semitoric systems
Sonja Hohloch, Pedro Santos
correctmedium confidence
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- Specialist/Solid
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- Sep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM
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Audit review
Part (1): The paper proves nondisplaceability of focus–focus fibers with multiplicity ≥2 by a clean topological argument: an embedded Lagrangian S^2 has nonzero self-intersection (via the Lagrangian neighborhood identification with T* S^2), hence cannot be displaced by any map homotopic to the inclusion, in particular not by a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism (Proposition 3.3 and Corollary 3.4 in the paper ). The model instead asserts, without adequate hypotheses, that any embedded Lagrangian S^2 in dimension four is Floer-unobstructed with HF(L,L) ≅ H*(S^2), which is not generally valid absent monotonicity or bounding-cochain assumptions; thus its justification is flawed. Part (2): Both paper and model use a nodal trade to pass to a toric picture and then displace under explicit rectangle/half-length conditions; the paper displaces the square preimage directly (Lemma 3.5 ), while the model appeals to probes. So the paper is correct on both parts; the model is incorrect on Part (1) but essentially correct on Part (2).
Referee report (LaTeX)
\textbf{Recommendation:} minor revisions \textbf{Journal Tier:} specialist/solid \textbf{Justification:} The manuscript cleanly extends displacement techniques from toric to semitoric settings and supplies a crisp, elementary proof of nondisplaceability for higher-multiplicity focus–focus fibers. The results are correct and the examples compelling. A few clarifications about nodal trade hypotheses and the exact scope of the displacement lemma would improve accessibility, but no substantive changes appear necessary.