Spectral numbers in Floer theories

DOI10.1112/S0010437X08003564zbMATH Open1151.53074arXiv0709.1127MaRDI QIDQ3548635FDOQ3548635

Michael Usher

Publication date: 16 December 2008

Published in: Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The chain complexes underlying Floer homology theories typically carry a real-valued filtration, allowing one to associate to each Floer homology class a spectral number defined as the infimum of the filtration levels of chains representing that class. These spectral numbers have been studied extensively in the case of Hamiltonian Floer homology by Oh, Schwarz, and others. We prove that the spectral number associated to any nonzero Floer homology class is always finite, and that the infimum in the definition of the spectral number is always attained. In the Hamiltonian case, this implies that what is known as the ``nondegenerate spectrality axiom holds on all closed symplectic manifolds. Our proofs are entirely algebraic and apply to any Floer-type theory (including Novikov homology) satisfying certain standard formal properties. The key ingredient is a theorem about the existence of best approximations of arbitrary elements of finitely generated free modules over Novikov rings by elements of prescribed submodules with respect to a certain family of non-Archimedean metrics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1127

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zbMATH Keywords

Floer homologyNovikov ringaction spectrumnon-Archimedean approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation in non-Archimedean valuations (11J61) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Floer homology (57R58)

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