Symplectic Floer homology and the mapping class group.
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Symplectic Floer homology and the mapping class group.
zbMATH Open document ID: 1061.53065
author: Paul Seidel
published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 2003-02-13T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0010301
review text: Let \(M\) be a closed connected oriented surface of genus \(\geq 2.\) If \(\omega \) is an everywhere positive two-form on \(M\) then a theorem of Moser says that each \(g\in \pi _0(\text{Diff}^+(M))\) admits a representative \(\phi \) which preserves \(\omega\), the symplectic structure \((M,\omega ) \) on \(M.\) The author proves that the quantum cap action of \(H^2(M,\mathbb{Z}/2),\) through the quantum cap product \(*: H^*(M,\mathbb{Z}/2)\otimes HF_*(\phi )\to HF_*(\phi ),\) on the Floer homology \(HF_*(g)\) is zero for all nontrivial elements of the group \(\Gamma =\pi _0(\text{Diff}^+(M))\). He also proves that if \(a\in H^1(M;\mathbb{Z}/2)\) is a class whose quantum cap action on \(HF_*(g)\) is nonzero, then there is a loop \(l:S^1\to M\) with \(g(l)\cong l\) and \(\langle a,[l]\rangle=1.\)
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53D40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53D35
zbMATH DE Number: 1868182
zbMATH Keywords: Floer homology
zbMATH Keywords: symplectic topology
zbMATH Keywords: quantum cap product
reviewed by: Stanisław Janeczko
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W2951939250
arXiv ID: math/0010301
DOI: 10.2140/PJM.2002.206.219
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