Introduction to Symplectic Field Theory
Cauchy-Riemann type operatorschain homotopycontact Floer homologycontact manifoldsGromov-Witten invariantsLegendrian knotsmoduli spacesMorse-Bott formalismReeb vector fieldssymplectic cobordismsymplectic field theorytopological field theory
Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45)
The authors describe in this article a new theory, which is called \textit{Symplectic Field Theory} (SFT), which provides an approach to Gromov-Witten invariants of symplectic manifolds and their Lagrangian submanifolds in the spirit of topological field theory, and at the same time serves as a rich source of new invariants of contact manifolds and their Legendrian submanifolds. The first part of the paper contains the necessary background in symplectic-geometric and analytic information (Reeb vector fields, splitting of a symplectic manifold along a contact hypersurface, compatible almost complex structures, holomorphic curves in symplectic cobordisma, compactification and dimension of moduli spaces, coherent orientation of the moduli spaces of holomorphic curves), and a first attempt of algebrization (including a recollection of finite-dimensional Floer theory, Floer homology for the action functional, examples and relative contact homology and contact non-squeezing theorems). The second part deals with the algebraic formalism; it starts with its own introduction -- which includes a brief sketch of SFT, and develops further specific SFT topics: contact manifolds, symplectic cobordisms, the SFT-version of the chain homotopy statement in Floer homology theory, the composition formula for the SFT-invariants of symplectic cobordisms, invariants of contact manifolds, invariants of Legendrian submanifolds via SFT, examples and possible generalizations of SFT. The article is part of a series of papers devoted to the foundations, applications, and further development of SFT. As the authors say, the presented theoretical issues and applications are just ``the tip of the iceberg; e.g., the wide range of applications of SFT -- some of which are mentioned in the paper, includes: new invariants on contact manifolds and Legendrian knots and links, new methods for computing Gromov-Witten invariants, new restrictions on the topology of Lagrangian submanifolds and new non-squeezing type theorems in contact geometry. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0960.00035].
- Hamiltonian \(S^1\)-manifolds are uniruled
- An exact sequence for contact- and symplectic homology
- Symplectic field theory and quantum backgrounds
- Algebraic cobordism revisited
- A duality exact sequence for Legendrian contact homology
- Chekanov--Eliashberg invariant of Legendrian knots: Existence of augmentations
- On connected sums and Legendrian knots.
- Generating function polynomials for Legendrian links
- Compactness results in symplectic field theory
- Multiplicity of closed Reeb orbits on prequantization bundles
- Hamiltonian pseudo-rotations of projective spaces
- Positive topological entropy for Reeb flows on 3-dimensional Anosov contact manifolds
- A remark on Gromov-Witten invariants of quintic threefold
- A complete knot invariant from contact homology
- Topological entropy for Reeb vector fields in dimension three via open book decompositions
- Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian 4-plat knots
- On the contact mapping class group of the contactization of the A_m-Milnor fiber
- Punctured holomorphic curves and Lagrangian embeddings
- Curves in Calabi-Yau threefolds and topological quantum field theory
- Differential algebra of cubic planar graphs
- Gluing tight contact structures
- Coherent orientations in symplectic field theory
- A field theory for symplectic fibrations over surfaces
- Cylindrical contact homology of subcritical Stein-fillable contact manifolds
- Pseudoholomorphic strips in symplectisations. I: Asymptotic behavior
- Equivariant symplectic homology of Anosov contact structures
- The space of linear anti-symplectic involutions is a homogenous space
- Monodromy groups of Lagrangian tori in \(\mathbb R^{4}\)
- Reeb vector fields and open book decompositions
- Note on a theorem of Bangert
- Symplectic folding and nonisotopic polydisks
- On the equivalence of Legendrian and transverse invariants in knot Floer homology
- Correction to: ``New obstructions to symplectic embeddings
- Dynamics and topology of conformally Anosov contact 3-manifolds
- Cellular Legendrian contact homology for surfaces. I
- Knot contact homology, string topology, and the cord algebra
- Integrability, quantization and moduli spaces of curves
- Exact Lagrangian caps and non-uniruled Lagrangian submanifolds
- Double ramification cycles and integrable hierarchies
- Subcritical polarisations of symplectic manifolds have degree one
- Homological algebra related to surfaces with boundary
- Normal form of equivariant maps in infinite dimensions
- Orbit growth of contact structures after surgery
- Refined disk potentials for immersed Lagrangian surfaces
- Stable Hamiltonian structure and basic cohomology
- Augmentations and ruling polynomials for Legendrian graphs
- Symplectic boundary conditions and cohomology
- Lagrangian cobordisms and Legendrian invariants in knot Floer homology
- Legendrian persistence modules and dynamics
- Cylindrical contact homology of 3-dimensional Brieskorn manifolds
- Global surfaces of Section with positive genus for dynamically convex Reeb flows
- Higher symplectic capacities and the stabilized embedding problem for integral ellipsoids
- Periodic delay orbits and the polyfold implicit function theorem
- Symplectic fillings of asymptotically dynamically convex manifolds II-\(k\)-dilations
- Higher algebraic structures in Hamiltonian Floer theory
- A note on coherent orientations for exact Lagrangian cobordisms
- Unknottedness of real Lagrangian tori in \(S^2 \times S^2\)
- Genus decreasing formula for higher genus Welschinger invariants
- Transversality for holomorphic supercurves
- Morse relations and Fredholm deformations of \(v\)-convex contact forms
- Fredholm pseudo-gradients for the action functional on a sub-manifold of dual Legendrian curves of a three dimensional contact manifold \((M^3,\alpha)\)
- Perfect Reeb flows and action-index relations
- Floer homologies, with applications
- On semisimplicity of quantum cohomology of \(\mathbb{P}^1\)-orbifolds
- Ergodic deformations of nonlinear Hamilton systems and local homeomorphism of metric spaces
- A survey of symplectic and contact topology
- Non-simplicity of isocontact embeddings in all higher dimensions
- Contact manifolds with flexible fillings
- Morse-Bott split symplectic homology
- Positive Legendrian isotopies and Floer theory
- An exact sequence for Legendrian links
- Floor diagrams relative to a conic, and GW-W invariants of Del Pezzo surfaces
- On growth rate and contact homology
- Dimensionally reduced sutured Floer homology as a string homology
- Braid Floer homology
- GW invariants relative to normal crossing divisors
- Infinitely many monotone Lagrangian tori in del Pezzo surfaces
- Weak and strong fillability of higher dimensional contact manifolds
- Filtrations on the knot contact homology of transverse knots
- Knot and braid invariants from contact homology. I
- Contact homology of toroidal manifolds
- The nonuniqueness of Chekanov polynomials of Legendrian knots
- Finite-energy pseudoholomorphic planes with multiple asymptotic limits
- Higher Maslov indices
- Dynamical convexity and elliptic periodic orbits for Reeb flows
- Quantum \(D_4\) Drinfeld-Sokolov hierarchy and quantum singularity theory
- Floer homology of families. I.
- The embedded contact homology of sutured solid tori
- New obstructions to symplectic embeddings
- Compactness for holomorphic supercurves
- Morse flow trees and Legendrian contact homology in 1-jet spaces
- The Seiberg-Witten equations and the Weinstein conjecture
- Framed knot contact homology
- A general Fredholm theory. I: A splicing-based differential geometry
- Finite energy foliations on overtwisted contact manifolds
- Birational cobordism invariance of uniruled symplectic manifolds
- Rounding corners of polygons and the embedded contact homology of \(T^3\)
- Pseudoholomorphic punctured spheres in R(S^1 S^2): properties and existence
- A cylindrical reformulation of Heegaard Floer homology
- The periodic Floer homology of a Dehn twist
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