Exponential decay for sc-gradient flow lines

DOI10.1007/S11784-013-0126-3MaRDI QIDQ395458zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Albers, Urs Frauenfelder

Publication date 29 January 2014

Published in Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3162

zbMATH Keywords

Floer theoryinterpolation inequalitysc-calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40)

Abstract: In this paper we introduce the notion of sc-action functionals and their sc-gradient flow lines. Our approach is inspired by Floer's unregularized gradient flow. The main result of this paper is that under a Morse condition sc-gradient flow lines have uniform exponential decay towards critical points. The ultimate goal for the future is to construct a M-polyfold bundle over a M-polyfold such that the space of broken sc-gradient flow lines is the zero set of a appropriate sc-section. Here uniform exponential decay is essential. Of independent interest is that we derive exponential decay estimates using interpolation inequalities as opposed to Sobolev inequalities. An advantage is that interpolation inequalities are independent of the dimension of the source space.

Review text

This paper is a contribution to the so-called ``polyfold theory, mainly developed by \textit{H. Hofer}, \textit{K. Wysocki} and \textit{E. Zehnder} (see, e.g. [J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 9, No. 4, 841--876 (2007; Zbl 1149.53053)]), whose goal is to provide a unified framework for the analytic study of moduli spaces occuring in various theories such as Morse theory, Gromov-Witten theory, Floer theory or symplectic field theory. The idea is to define a notion of ``sc-space, a notion of convergence on these sc-spaces and a notion of linear maps between them. Out of that, one can define a new notion of smoothness and rewrite differential calculus in this settings. This gives rise to the analytical background on which polyfold theory is built. In Morse theory or Floer theory in particular, one considers an ``action function defined on some (possibly infinite-dimensional) Banach space and considers how its gradient trajectories are organized to produce some algebraic invariants. For polyfold theory, one needs to consider analogous functions defined on sc-spaces instead of Banach spaces. A key point in usual Morse and Floer theories is the fact that when a gradient trajectory converges to a non-degenerate critical point, then the convergence rate is exponential. In the paper under review, the authors prove that this exponential rate still holds in the sc-spaces framework.

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