How to (symplectically) thread the eye of a (Lagrangian) needle

Abstract

We show that there exists no Lagrangian embeddings of the Klein bottle into 2. Using the same techniques we also give a new proof that any Lagrangian torus in 2 is smoothly isotopic to the Clifford torus.

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