Analytic filling of totally real tori

We prove that any embedded Maslov index two analytic disc attached to a totally real torus in the complex two-dimensional affine space extends to an analytic filling provided that the torus is contained in a regular level set of a strictly plurisubharmonic function

How to recognize a 4-ball when you see one

We apply the method of filling with holomorphic discs to a 4-dimensional symplectic cobordism with the standard contact 3-sphere as one convex boundary component. We establish the following dichotomy: either the cobordism is diffeomorphic to a ball, or there is a periodic Reeb orbit of quantifiably short period in the concave boundary of the cobordism. This allows us to give a unified treatment of various results concerning Reeb dynamics on contact 3-manifolds, symplectic fillability, the topology of symplectic cobordisms, symplectic nonsqueezing, and the nonexistence of exact Lagrangian surfaces in standard symplectic 4-space

Mean curvature flow of monotone Lagrangian submanifolds

We use holomorphic disks to describe the formation of singularities in the mean curvature flow of monotone Lagrangian submanifolds in $\mathbb C^{n}$.Comment: 37 pages, 3 figure

Thermo-mechanical response FEM simulation of ceramic refractories undergoing severe temperature variations

T. K Papathanasiou and F. Dal Corso gratefully acknowledge support from the European Union FP7 project “Mechanics of refractory materials at high–temperature for advanced industrial technologies” under contract number PIAPP–GA–2013–609758. A. Piccolroaz would like to acknowledge financial support from the European Union‟s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013/ under REA grant agreement number PITN-GA-2013-606878-CERMAT2

Discontinuous symplectic capacities

We show that the spherical capacity is discontinuous on a smooth family of ellipsoidal shells. Moreover, we prove that the shell capacity is discontinuous on a family of open sets with smooth connected boundaries

Symplectic dynamics of contact isotropic torus complements

We determine the homotopy type of isotropic torus complements in closed contact manifolds in terms of Reeb dynamics of special contact forms. For that, we utilize holomorphic curve techniques known from symplectic field theory as Gromov–Hofer compactness and localized transversality on noncompact contact manifolds