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

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

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 B4(c)subsetR4 into 4-dimensional rational symplectic manifolds. We compute the rational homotopy groups of that space when the 4-manifold has the form Mlambda=(S2imesS2,muomega0oplusomega0) where omega0 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 ccrit=mu1, which is the difference of areas between the two S2 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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