Gravitational Descendants and Linearized Contact Homology

Publication date: 20 November 2012

Abstract: In this paper we prove a recursion relation between the the one-point genus-0 gravitational descendants of a Stein domain

(M, p a r t i a l M)

. This relation is best described by the degree -2 map

D

in the linearized contact homology of

p a r t i a l M

, arising from the Bourgeois--Oancea exact sequence between symplectic homology of

M

and linearized contact homology of

p a r t i a l M

. All one-point genus-0 gravitational descendants can be reduce to the one-point Gromov--Witten invariants via iterates of

D

.

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