Local symplectic field theory

DOI10.1142/S0129167X13500419MaRDI QIDQ2854052zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oliver Fabert

Publication date 17 October 2013

Published in International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.3504

zbMATH Keywords

holomorphic curvesmultiple coversobstruction bundlesymplectic field theorysymplectic geometrytransversality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42)

Abstract: Generalizing local Gromov-Witten theory, in this paper we define a local version of symplectic field theory. When the symplectic manifold with cylindrical ends is four-dimensional and the underlying simple curve is regular by automatic transversality, we establish a transversality result for all its multiple covers and discuss the resulting algebraic structures.

Review text

From the author's introduction: In this paper we define a local version of Eliashberg-Givental-Hofer's symplectic field theory (SFT). It provides a topological quantum theory approach to local Gromov-Witten theory in the same way as standard SFT provides a topological quantum field theory approach to standard Gromov-Witten theory. While in local Gromov-Witten theory one counts multiple covers over a fixed closed holomorphic curve, in local SFT we count multiple covers over punctured holomorphic curves. Instead of getting invariants for contact manifolds, we now get the invariants for closed Reeb orbits that were already studied in the author previous articles. Note that for the orbit curves we used an infinitesimal energy estimate to show that multiple covers of orbit cylinders are isolated in the moduli space of holomorphic curves.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn this paper we show that the dimension bounds on the kernel of the linearized Cauchy-Riemann operator established in [\textit{C. Wendl}, Comment. Math. Helv. 85, No. 2, 347--407 (2010; Zbl 1207.32021)] (using positivity of intersections in dimension four) can be used to obtain the required isolatedness result for rational multiple covers when the underlying simple (rational) curve is sufficiently nice.

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• Transversality and super-rigidity for multiply covered holomorphic curves

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