The topology of the space of symplectic balls in rational 4-manifolds

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-04-12223-7zbMATH Open1063.57023arXivmath/0207096OpenAlexW2015834460MaRDI QIDQ707491FDOQ707491

Authors: François Lalonde, Martin Pinsonnault 

Publication date: 9 February 2005

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study in this paper the rational homotopy type of the space of symplectic embeddings of the standard ball $B^4(c)subset{R}^4$ into 4-dimensional rational symplectic manifolds. We compute the rational homotopy groups of that space when the 4-manifold has the form $M_{lambda}=(S^{2}imes{S}^2,muomeg{a}_{0}oplusomeg{a}_0)$ where $omeg{a}_0$ is the area form on the sphere with total area 1 and $mu$ belongs to the interval $[1,2]$. We show that, when $mu$ is 1, this space retracts to the space of symplectic frames, for any value of $c$. However, for any given $1<mu<2$, the rational homotopy type of that space changes as $c$ crosses the critical parameter $c_{crit}=mu-1$, which is the difference of areas between the two $S^2$ factors. We prove moreover that the full homotopy type of that space changes only at that value, i.e the restriction map between these spaces is a homotopy equivalence as long as these values of $c$ remain either below or above that critical value.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0207096

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zbMATH Keywords

embeddingblow-upsymplectic manifoldrational homotopy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05) Rational homotopy theory (55P62) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Spectral sequences and homology of fiber spaces in algebraic topology (55R20)

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