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EXC 2046: Berlin Mathematics Research Center (MATH+)
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Exzellenzstrategie Cluster Zeitraum: 01/2019 - 12/2024 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Caren Tischendorf, Prof. Dr. Michael Hintermüller, Prof. Dr. Max Klimm, Prof. Dr. Dörte Kreher, Prof. Chris Wendl, Prof. Dr. Bettina Rösken-Winter, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c. Edda Klipp
Kolleg Mathematik Physik Berlin
Quelle ↗Zeitraum: 01/2016 - 12/2020 Projektleitung: Prof. Dirk Kreimer, Prof. Dr. Gavril Farkas, Prof. Dr. Jan Plefka
New Transversality Techniques in Holomorphic Curve Theories (Transholomorphic)
Quelle ↗Förderer: Horizon 2020: ERC Consolidator Grant Zeitraum: 09/2018 - 08/2023 Projektleitung: Prof. Chris Wendl
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Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2277 Zitationen · DOI
The introduction motivates the remainder of the book via two specific examples of theorems from the early days of symplectic topology in which intersection theory plays a prominent role. We sketch closely analogous proofs of both theorems, emphasizing the way that intersection theory is used, but point out why the second theorem (on symplectic 4-manifolds that are standard near infinity) requires a nonobvious extension of homological intersection theory to punctured holomorphic curves. We then discuss informally some of the properties this theory will need to have and what kinds of subtle issues may arise.
Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici · 143 Zitationen · DOI
We derive a numerical criterion for J-holomorphic curves in 4-dimensional symplectic cobordisms to achieve transversality without any genericity assumption. This generalizes results of Hofer–Lizan–Sikorav [HLS97] and Ivashkovich–Shevchishin [IS99] to allow punctured curves with boundary that generally need not be somewhere injective or immersed. As an application, we combine this with the intersection theory of punctured holomorphic curves to prove that certain geometrically natural moduli spaces are globally smooth orbifolds, consisting generically of embedded curves, plus unbranched multiple covers that form isolated orbifold singularities.
67 Zitationen
Abstract. For contact manifolds in dimension three, the notions of weak and strong symplectic fillability and tightness are all known to be inequivalent. We extend these facts to higher dimensions: in particular, we define a natural generalization of weak fillings and prove that it is indeed weaker (at least in dimension five), while also being obstructed by all known manifestations of “overtwistedness”. We also find the first examples of contact manifolds in all dimensions that are not symplectically fillable but also cannot be called overtwisted in any reasonable sense. These depend on a higher dimensional analogue of Giroux torsion, which we define via the existence in all dimensions of exact symplectic manifolds with disconnected contact boundary.
Annales Scientifiques de l École Normale Supérieure · 58 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract. English: We prove several results on weak symplectic fillings of contact 3–manifolds, including: (1) Every weak filling of any planar contact manifold can be deformed to a blow up of a Stein filling. (2) Contact manifolds that have fully separating planar torsion are not weakly fillable—this gives many new examples of contact manifolds without Giroux torsion that have no weak fillings. (3) Weak fillability is preserved under splicing of contact manifolds along sym-plectic pre-Lagrangian tori—this gives many new examples of contact manifolds without Giroux torsion that are weakly but not strongly fillable. We establish the obstructions to weak fillings via two parallel approaches using holomorphic curves. In the first approach, we generalize the original Gromov-Eliashberg “Bishop disk” argument to study the special case of Giroux torsion via a Bishop family of holomorphic annuli with boundary on an “anchored overtwisted annulus”. The second approach uses punctured holomorphic curves, and is based on the observation that every weak filling can be deformed in a collar neighborhood so as to induce a stable Hamiltonian structure on the boundary. This also makes it possible to apply the techniques of Symplectic Field Theory, which we demonstrate in a test case by showing that the distinction between weakly and strongly fillable translates into
arXiv (Cornell University) · 42 Zitationen · DOI
This is the preliminary manuscript of a book on symplectic field theory based on a lecture course for PhD students given in 2015-16. It covers the essentials of the analytical theory of punctured pseudoholomorphic curves, taking the opportunity to fill in gaps in the existing literature where necessary, and then gives detailed explanations of a few of the standard applications in contact topology such as distinguishing contact structures up to contactomorphism and proving symplectic non-fillability.
Duke Mathematical Journal · 33 Zitationen · DOI
We generalize the familiar notions of overtwistedness and Giroux torsion in 3-dimensional contact manifolds, defining an infinite hierarchy of local filling obstructions called planar torsion, whose integer-valued order k≥0 can be interpreted as measuring a gradation in “degrees of tightness” of contact manifolds. We show in particular that any contact manifold with planar torsion admits no contact-type embeddings into any closed symplectic 4-manifold, and has vanishing contact invariant in embedded contact homology, and we give examples of contact manifolds that have planar k-torsion for any k≥2 but no Giroux torsion. We also show that the complement of the binding of a supporting open book never has planar torsion. The unifying idea in the background is a decomposition of contact manifolds in terms of contact fiber sums of open books along their binding. As the technical basis of these results, we establish existence, uniqueness, and compactness theorems for certain classes of J-holomorphic curves in blown-up summed open books; these also imply algebraic obstructions to planarity and embeddings of partially planar domains.
arXiv (Cornell University) · 32 Zitationen · DOI
This is a set of expository lecture notes created originally for a graduate course on holomorphic curves taught at ETH Zurich and the Humboldt University Berlin in 2009/2010. The notes are still incomplete, but due to recent requests from readers, I've decided to make a presentable half-finished version available here. Further chapters will be added in future updates.
Lecture notes in mathematics · 31 Zitationen · DOI
Geometry & Topology · 28 Zitationen · DOI
We develop a method for preserving pseudoholomorphic curves in contact 3-manifolds under surgery along transverse links. This makes use of a geometrically natural boundary value problem for holomorphic curves in a 3-manifold with stable Hamiltonian structure, where the boundary conditions are defined by 1-parameter families of totally real surfaces. The technique is applied here to construct a finite energy foliation for every closed overtwisted contact 3-manifold.
Annals of Mathematics · 20 Zitationen · DOI
We develop new techniques to study regularity questions for moduli spaces of pseudoholomorphic curves that are multiply covered. Among the main results, we show that unbranched multiple covers of closed holomorphic curves are generically regular, and simple index $0$ curves in dimensions greater than four are generically super-rigid, implying, e.g., that the Gromov-Witten invariants of Calabi-Yau $3$-folds reduce to sums of local invariants for finite sets of embedded curves. We also establish partial results on super-rigidity in dimension four and regularity of branched covers, and briefly discuss the outlook for bifurcation analysis. The proofs are based on a general stratification result for moduli spaces of multiple covers, framed in terms of a representation-theoretic splitting of Cauchy-Riemann operators with symmetries.
Expositiones Mathematicae · 20 Zitationen · DOI
ArXiv.org · 14 Zitationen · DOI
A spinal open book decomposition on a contact manifold is a generalization of a supporting open book which exists naturally e.g. on the boundary of a symplectic filling with a Lefschetz fibration over any compact oriented surface with boundary. In this first paper of a two-part series, we introduce the basic notions relating spinal open books to contact structures and symplectic or Stein structures on Lefschetz fibrations, leading to the definition of a new symplectic cobordism construction called spine removal surgery, which generalizes previous constructions due to Eliashberg, Gay-Stipsicz and the third author. As an application, spine removal yields a large class of new examples of contact manifolds that are not strongly (and sometimes not weakly) symplectically fillable. This paper also lays the geometric groundwork for a theorem to be proved in part II, where holomorphic curves are used to classify the symplectic and Stein fillings of contact 3-manifolds admitting a spinal open book with a planar page.
Journal of the European Mathematical Society · 11 Zitationen · DOI
We prove a compactness theorem for holomorphic curves in 4-dimensional symplectizations that have embedded projections to the underlying 3-manifold. It strengthens the cylindrical case of the SFT compactness theorem [BEH+ 03] by using intersection theory to show that degenerations of such sequences never give rise to multiple covers or nodes, so transversality is easily achieved. This has application to the theory of stable finite energy foliations introduced in [HWZ03], and also suggests a new approach to defining SFT-type invariants for contact 3manifolds, or more generally, 3-manifolds with stable Hamiltonian structures.
arXiv (Cornell University) · 7 Zitationen · DOI
This is a revision of some expository lecture notes written originally for a 5-hour minicourse on the intersection theory of punctured holomorphic curves and its applications in 3-dimensional contact topology. The main lectures are aimed primarily at students and require only a minimal background in holomorphic curve theory, as the emphasis is on topological rather than analytical issues. Some of the gaps in the analysis are then filled in by the appendices, which include self-contained proofs of the similarity principle and positivity of intersections, and conclude with a "quick reference" for the benefit of researchers, detailing the basic facts of Siefring's intersection theory.
Journal of Differential Geometry · 7 Zitationen · DOI
We show that the pre-order defined on the category of contact manifolds by arbitrary symplectic cobordisms is considerably less rigid than its counterparts for exact or Stein cobordisms: in particular, we exhibit large new classes of contact 3-manifolds which are symplectically cobordant to something overtwisted, or to the tight 3-sphere, or which admit symplectic caps containing symplectically embedded spheres with vanishing self-intersection. These constructions imply new and simplified proofs of several recent results involving fillability, planarity, and non-separating contact type embeddings. The cobordisms are built from symplectic handles of the form $\Sigma \times \mathbb{D}$ and $\Sigma \times [−1, 1] \times S^1$, which have symplectic cores and can be attached to contact 3-manifolds along sufficiently large neighborhoods of transverse links and pre- Lagrangian tori. We also sketch a construction of $J$-holomorphic foliations in these cobordisms and formulate a conjecture regarding maps induced on Embedded Contact Homology with twisted coefficients.
6 Zitationen
We observe that nonzero Gromov-Witten invariants with marked point constraints in a closed symplectic manifold imply restrictions on the homology classes that can be represented by contact hypersurfaces. As a special case, contact hypersurfaces must always separate if the symplectic manifold is uniruled. This removes a superfluous assumption in a result of G. Lu, thus implying that all contact manifolds that embed as contact type hypersurfaces into uniruled symplectic manifolds satisfy the Weinstein conjecture. We prove the main result using the Cieliebak-Mohnke approach to defining Gromov-Witten invariants via Donaldson hypersurfaces, thus no semipositivity or virtual moduli cycles are required.
ArXiv.org · 6 Zitationen · DOI
We derive a numerical criterion for J-holomorphic curves in 4-dimensional symplectic cobordisms to achieve transversality without any genericity assumption. This generalizes results of Hofer-Lizan-Sikorav and Ivashkovich-Shevchishin to allow punctured curves with boundary that generally need not be somewhere injective or immersed. As an application, we combine this with the intersection theory of punctured holomorphic curves to prove that certain geometrically natural moduli spaces are globally smooth orbifolds, consisting generically of embedded curves, plus unbranched multiple covers that form isolated orbifold singularities.
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 5 Zitationen · DOI
An accessible introduction to the intersection theory of punctured holomorphic curves and its applications in topology.
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics · 4 Zitationen · DOI
We prove that in closed almost complex manifolds of any dimension, generic perturbations of the almost complex structure suffice to achieve transversality for all unbranched multiple covers of simple pseudoholomorphic curves with deformation index 0. A corollary is that the Gromov‐Witten invariants (without descendants) of symplectic 4‐manifolds can always be computed as a signed and weighted count of honest J‐holomorphic curves for generic tame J: in particular, each such invariant is an integer divided by a weighting factor that depends only on the divisibility of the corresponding homology class. The transversality proof is based on an analytic perturbation technique, originally due to Taubes.© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
ArXiv.org · 4 Zitationen · DOI
We prove a compactness theorem for holomorphic curves in 4-dimensional symplectizations that have embedded projections to the underlying 3-manifold. It strengthens the cylindrical case of the SFT compactness theorem by using intersection theory to show that degenerations of such sequences never give rise to multiple covers or nodes, so transversality is easily achieved. This has application to the theory of stable finite energy foliations, and also suggests a new approach to defining SFT-type invariants for contact 3-manifolds, or more generally, 3-manifolds with stable Hamiltonian structures.
On symplectic fillings of spinal open book decompositions II: Holomorphic curves and classification
2020ArXiv.org · 3 Zitationen · DOI
In this second paper of a two-part series, we prove that whenever a contact 3-manifold admits a uniform spinal open book decomposition with planar pages, its (weak, strong and/or exact) symplectic and Stein fillings can be classified up to deformation equivalence in terms of diffeomorphism classes of Lefschetz fibrations. This extends previous results of the third author to a much wider class of contact manifolds, which we illustrate here by classifying the strong and Stein fillings of all oriented circle bundles with non-tangential $S^1$-invariant contact structures. Further results include new vanishing criteria for the ECH contact invariant and algebraic torsion in SFT, classification of fillings for certain non-orientable circle bundles, and a general "symplectic quasiflexibility" result about deformation classes of Stein structures in real dimension four.
arXiv (Cornell University) · 3 Zitationen · DOI
We use contact fiber sums of open book decompositions to define an infinite hierarchy of filling obstructions for contact 3-manifolds, called planar k-torsion for nonnegative integers k, all of which cause the contact invariant in Embedded Contact Homology to vanish. Planar 0-torsion is equivalent to overtwistedness, while every contact manifold with Giroux torsion also has planar 1-torsion, and we give examples of contact manifolds that have planar k-torsion for any $k \ge 2$ but no Giroux torsion, leading to many new examples of nonfillable contact manifolds. We show also that the complement of the binding of a supporting open book never has planar torsion. The technical basis of these results is an existence and uniqueness theorem for J-holomorphic curves with positive ends approaching the (possibly blown up) binding of an ensemble of open book decompositions.
ArXiv.org · 3 Zitationen · DOI
We show that every open book decomposition of a contact 3-manifold can be represented (up to isotopy) by a smooth R-invariant family of pseudoholomorphic curves on its symplectization with respect to a suitable stable Hamiltonian structure. In the planar case, this family survives small perturbations, and thus gives a concrete construction of a stable finite energy foliation that has been used in various applications to planar contact manifolds, including the Weinstein conjecture and equivalence of strong and Stein fillability.
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2 Zitationen · DOI
A spinal open book decomposition on a contact manifold is a generalization of\na supporting open book which exists naturally e.g. on the boundary of a\nsymplectic filling with a Lefschetz fibration over any compact oriented surface\nwith boundary. In this first paper of a two-part series, we introduce the basic\nnotions relating spinal open books to contact structures and symplectic or\nStein structures on Lefschetz fibrations, leading to the definition of a new\nsymplectic cobordism construction called spine removal surgery, which\ngeneralizes previous constructions due to Eliashberg, Gay-Stipsicz and the\nthird author. As an application, spine removal yields a large class of new\nexamples of contact manifolds that are not strongly (and sometimes not weakly)\nsymplectically fillable. This paper also lays the geometric groundwork for a\ntheorem to be proved in part II, where holomorphic curves are used to classify\nthe symplectic and Stein fillings of contact 3-manifolds admitting a spinal\nopen book with a planar page.\n
Journal of Symplectic Geometry · 1 Zitationen · DOI
We exhibit a distinctly low-dimensional dynamical obstruction to the existence of Liouville cobordisms: for any contact 3-manifold admitting an exact symplectic cobordism to the tight 3-sphere, every nondegenerate contact form admits an embedded Reeb orbit that is unknotted and has self-linking number -1. The same is true moreover for any contact structure on a closed 3-manifold that is reducible. Our results generalize an earlier theorem of Hofer-Wysocki-Zehnder for the 3-sphere, but use somewhat newer techniques: the main idea is to exploit the intersection theory of punctured holomorphic curves in order to understand the compactification of the space of so-called "nicely embedded" curves in symplectic cobordisms. In the process, we prove a local adjunction formula for holomorphic annuli breaking along a Reeb orbit, which may be of independent interest.
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