The Floer homotopy type of the cotangent bundle

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2010.V6.N2.A6zbMATH Open1226.53086arXivmath/0702852MaRDI QIDQ547849FDOQ547849

Authors: Ralph L. Cohen 

Publication date: 27 June 2011

Published in: Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let M be a closed, oriented, n-dimensional manifold. In this paper we describe a spectrum in the sense of homotopy theory, Z(T^*M), whose homology is naturally isomorphic to the Floer homology of the cotangent bundle, T^*M. This Floer homology is taken with respect to a Hamiltonian H: S^1 x T^*M --> R, which is quadratic near infinity. Z(T^*M) is constructed assuming a basic smooth gluing result of J-holomorphic cylinders. This spectrum will have a C.W decomposition with one cell for every periodic solution of the equation defined by the Hamiltonian vector field X_H. Its induced cellular chain complex is exactly the Floer complex. The attaching maps in the C.W structure of Z(T^*M) are described in terms of the framed cobordism types of the moduli spaces of J -holomorphic cylinders in T^*M with given boundary conditions. This is done via a Pontrjagin-Thom construction, and an important ingredient in this is proving, modulo this gluing result, that these moduli spaces are compact, smooth, framed manifolds with corners. We then prove that Z(T^*M), which we refer to as the "Floer homotopy type" of T^*M, has the same homotopy type as the suspension spectrum of the free loop space, LM. This generalizes the theorem first proved by C. Viterbo that the Floer homology of T^*M is isomorphic to H_*(LM).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702852

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zbMATH Keywords

Floer homologycotangent bundleFloer homotopy typemoduli space of \(J\)-holomorphic cylinders

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Floer homology (57R58)

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