On the structure of pseudo-holomorphic discs with totally real boundary conditions (Q1272842)

We study the structure of \(J\)-holomorphic discs in relation to the Fredholm theory of pseudo-holomorphic discs with totally real boundary conditions in almost complex manifolds \((M,J)\). We prove that any \(J\)-holomorphic disc with totally real boundary condition that is injective in the interior except at a discrete set of points, which we call a ``normalized disc'', must either have some boundary point that is regular and has multiplicity one, or satisfy that its image forms a smooth immersed compact surface (without boundary) with a finite number of self-intersections and a finite number of branch points. In the course of proving this theorem, we also prove several theorems on the local structure of boundary points of \(J\)-holomorphic discs, and, as an application, we give the first complete treatment of the transversality result for Floer's pseudo-holomorphic trajectories for Lagrangian intersections in symplectic geometry.