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In this paper we obtain new topological restrictions on Lagrangian embeddings into subcritical Stein manifolds. We also extend previous results of Gromov, Oh, Polterovich and Viterbo on Lagrangian submanifolds of ℂn to the more general case of subcritical Stein manifolds.
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Research partially supported by the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation grant 1999086.
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Biran, P., Cieliebak, K. Lagrangian embeddings into subcritical Stein manifolds. Isr. J. Math. 127, 221–244 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02784532
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