Three approaches towards Floer homology of cotangent bundles

DOI10.4310/JSG.2005.V3.N4.A7zbMATH Open1109.53080arXivmath/0602230MaRDI QIDQ862195FDOQ862195

Authors: Joa Weber 

Publication date: 5 February 2007

Published in: The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Consider the cotangent bundle of a closed Riemannian manifold and an almost complex structure close to the one induced by the Riemannian metric. For Hamiltonians which grow for instance quadratically in the fibers outside of a compact set, one can define Floer homology and show that it is naturally isomorphic to singular homology of the free loop space. We review the three isomorphisms constructed by Viterbo (1996), Salamon-Weber (2003) and Abbondandolo-Schwarz (2004). The theory is illustrated by calculating Morse and Floer homology in case of the euclidean n-torus. Applications include existence of noncontractible periodic orbits of compactly supported Hamiltonians on open unit disc cotangent bundles which are sufficiently large over the zero section.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602230

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zbMATH Keywords

almost complex structureRiemannian manifoldHamiltonians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Floer homology (57R58)

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