Sc-smoothness, retractions and new models for smooth spaces

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2010.28.665MaRDI QIDQ983461zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Helmut Hofer, Krzysztof Wysocki, Eduard Zehnder

Publication date 23 July 2010

Published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3381

zbMATH Keywords

M-polyfoldSc-Banach spacesSc-Fredholm section of M-polyfold bundleSc-retractionSc-smoothness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45)

Abstract: We survey a (nonlinear) Fredholm theory for a new class of ambient spaces called polyfolds, and develop the analytical foundations for some of the applications of the theory. The basic feature of these new spaces, which can be finite and infinite dimensional, is that in general they may have locally varying dimensions. These new spaces are needed for a functional analytic treatment of nonlinear problems involving analytic limiting behavior like bubbling-off. The theory is applicable to Gromov-Witten and Floer Theory as well as Symplectic Field Theory.

Review text

In several previous papers [J. Eur. Math. Soc. 9, 841--876 (2007; Zbl 1149.53053); Geom. Funct. Anal. 19, 206--293 (2009; Zbl 1217.58005); Geom. Topol. 13, 2279--2387 (2009; Zbl 1185.58002)], the authors have described a generalization of differential geometry based on the notion of splicings. The associated Fredholm theory in polyfolds is crucial in symplectic field theory, and also has applications to Floer theory, Gromov-Witten theory and the study of families of elliptic pde's on varying domains. A key step in the generalization of differential geometry is new notion of differentiability, called sc-smoothness. In the article under review the authors describe these ideas and provide some of the hard analysis results, which enter the polyfolds constructions in symplectic field theory. The concepts are illustrated by holomorphic mappings between conformal cylinders which break apart as the modulus tends to infinity.

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• Deformations of symplectic vortices
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