Taubes’s proof of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01282-8zbMath1197.57023arXiv0906.2444WikidataQ29037764 ScholiaQ29037764MaRDI QIDQ5850860

Michael Hutchings

Publication date: 20 January 2010

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2444

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theory; symplectic manifolds; Seiberg-Witten invariants; gauge theory; spectral flow; Hamiltonian vector fields; Reeb orbits; Floer theory; contact forms; Gromov invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57R17: Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension

57M50: General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds

53D40: Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology

57-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes

53D42: Symplectic field theory; contact homology

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