Whitehead products in symplectomorphism groups and Gromov-Witten invariants

Publication date 5 November 2004

Abstract: Consider any symplectic ruled surface

(M_{l a m b d a}^{g}, o m e g a_{l a m b d a})

given by

(S i g m a_{g} i m e s S^{2}, l a m b d a s i g m a_{S i g m a_{g}} o p l u s s i g m a_{S^{2}})

. We compute all natural equivariant Gromov-Witten invariants

E G W_{g, 0} (M_{l a m b d a}^{g}; H_{k}, A - k F)

for all hamiltonian circle actions

H_{k}

on

M_{l a m b d a}^{g}

, where

A = [S i g m a_{g} i m e s p t]

and

F = [p t i m e s S^{2}]

. We use these invariants to show the nontriviality of certain higher order Whitehead products that live in the homotopy groups of the symplectomorphism groups

G_{l a m b d a}^{g}

,

g g e q 0

. Our results are sharper when

g = 0, 1

and enable us to answer a question posed by D.McDuff in the case

g = 1

and provide a new interpretation of the multiplicative structure in the ring

H^{*} (B G_{l a m b d a}^{0}; Q)

found by Abreu-McDuff.

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