An algebraic approach to virtual fundamental cycles on moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic curves

DOI10.2140/GT.2016.20.779zbMATH Open1342.53109arXiv1309.2370OpenAlexW3103174361MaRDI QIDQ280912FDOQ280912

Authors: John Pardon 

Publication date: 10 May 2016

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop techniques for defining and working with virtual fundamental cycles on moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic curves which are not necessarily cut out transversally. Such techniques have the potential for applications as foundations for invariants in symplectic topology arising from "counting" pseudo-holomorphic curves. We introduce the notion of an *implicit atlas* on a moduli space, which is (roughly) a convenient system of local finite-dimensional reductions. We present a general intrinsic strategy for constructing a canonical implicit atlas on any moduli space of pseudo-holomorphic curves. The main technical step in applying this strategy in any particular setting is to prove appropriate gluing theorems. We require only topological gluing theorems, that is, smoothness of the transition maps between gluing charts need not be addressed. Our approach to virtual fundamental cycles is algebraic rather than geometric (in particular, we do not use perturbation). Sheaf-theoretic tools play an important role in setting up our functorial algebraic "VFC package". We illustrate the methods we introduce by giving definitions of Gromov--Witten invariants and Hamiltonian Floer homology over $mathbbQ$ for general symplectic manifolds. Our framework generalizes to the $S^1$-equivariant setting, and we use $S^1$-localization to calculate Hamiltonian Floer homology. The Arnold conjecture (as treated by Floer, Hofer--Salamon, Ono, Liu--Tian, Ruan, and Fukaya--Ono) is a well-known corollary of this calculation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2370

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zbMATH Keywords

Floer homologytransversality\(S^1\)-localizationArnold conjecturegluingGromov-Witten invariantsHamiltonian Floer homologyimplicit atlasespseudo-holomorphic curvesvirtual fundamental cycles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45) Pseudoholomorphic curves (32Q65) Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Symplectic aspects of mirror symmetry, homological mirror symmetry, and Fukaya category (53D37)

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Uses Software

• VFC package

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