Cobordism maps in embedded contact homology

Abstract: Given an exact symplectic cobordism

(X, l a m b d a)

between contact

3

-manifolds

(Y_{+}, l a m b d a_{+})

and

(Y_{-}, l a m b d a_{-})

with no elliptic Reeb orbits up to a certain action, we define a chain map from the embedded contact homology (ECH) chain complex of

(Y_{+}, l a m b d a_{+})

to that of

(Y_{-}, l a m b d a_{-})

, both taken with coefficients in

m a t h b b Z / 2 m a t h b b Z

. The map is defined by counting punctured holomorphic curves with ECH index

0

in the completion of the cobordism and new objects that we call ECH buildings, answering a question of Hutchings.

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