Complexifications of Morse functions and the directed Donaldson-Fukaya category

DOI10.4310/JSG.2010.V8.N4.A3zbMATH Open1211.53100arXiv0808.0262MaRDI QIDQ617043FDOQ617043

Authors: Joseph Johns 

Publication date: 20 January 2011

Published in: The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let N be a closed four dimensional manifold which admits a self-indexing Morse function f with only 3 critical values 0,2,4, and a unique maximum and minimum. Let g be a Riemannian metric on N such that (f,g) is Morse-Smale. We construct from (N,f,g) a certain six dimensional exact symplectic manifold M, together with some exact Lagrangian spheres V_4, V_2^j, V_0 in M, j=1,...,k. These spheres correspond to the critical points x_4, x_2^j, x_0 of f, where the subscript indicates the Morse index. (In a companion paper we explain how (M, V_4,{V_2^j},V_0) is a model for the regular fiber and vanishing spheres of the complexification of f, viewed as a Lefschetz fibration on the disk cotangent bundle D(T^*N).) Our main result is a computation of the Lagrangian Floer homology groups HF(V_4,V_2^j), HF(V_2^j,V_0), HF(V_4,V_0) and the triangle product mu_2: HF(V_4,V_2^j) otimes HF(V_2^j,V_0) --> HF(V_4,V_0). The outcome is that the directed Donaldson-Fukaya category of (M,V_4,{V_2^j},V_0) is isomorphic to the flow category of (N,f,g).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0262

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zbMATH Keywords

Morse functionvanishing cycledirected Donaldson-Fukaya categoryflow categoryMorse-Butt-Lagrangian Floer homologysymplectic Lefschetz fibration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Floer homology (57R58)

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