The symplectomorphism group of a blow up

DOI10.1007/S10711-007-9175-3MaRDI QIDQ2481353zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dusa McDuff

Publication date 9 April 2008

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610142

zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphism groupsymplectomorphism groupsymplectic blow upparametric Gromo-Witten invariantssymplectic characteristic classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We study the relation between the symplectomorphism group Symp M of a closed connected symplectic manifold M and the symplectomorphism and diffeomorphism groups Symp TM and Diff TM of its one point blow up TM. There are three main arguments. The first shows that for any oriented M the natural map from pi_1(M) to pi_0(Diff TM) is often injective. The second argument applies when M is simply connected and detects nontrivial elements in the homotopy group pi_1(Diff TM) that persist into the space of self homotopy equivalences of TM. Since it uses purely homological arguments, it applies to c-symplectic manifolds (M,a), that is, to manifolds of dimension 2n that support a class a in H^2(M;R) such that a^n e 0. The third argument uses the symplectic structure on M and detects nontrivial elements in the (higher) homology of BSymp TM using characteristic classes defined by parametric Gromov--Witten invariants. Some results about many point blow ups are also obtained. For example we show that if M is the 4-torus with k-fold blow up TM_k (where k>0) then pi_1(Diff TM_k) is not generated by the groups pi_1Symp (TM_k, Tom) as Tom ranges over the set of all symplectic forms on TM_k.

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