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What is the current status of derived differential geometry?

I hope you will excuse this naive and general question. I've read from many places (e.g. Dominic Joyce's website, John Pardon's thesis, etc.) that the/a "right" foundations for many ...
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Why are there so few quaternionic representations of simple groups?

Having spent many hours looking through the Atlas of Finite Simple Groups while in Grad school, I recall being rather intrigued by the fact that among the sporadic groups, only one (McLaughlin as I ...
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What is the Hochschild cohomology of the Fukaya-Seidel category?

Let $(Y, \omega)$ be a compact symplectic manifold and let $Fuk(X,\omega)$ be its Fukaya category. The Hochschild cohomology of this category should be given by $HH^\bullet(Fuk(Y,\omega))=H^\bullet(Y, ...
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Categorification of Floer homology

Floer homology associates a vector space $HF^\ast(L_1,L_2)$ to any pair of Lagrangian submanifolds $L_1,L_2$ inside a symplectic manifold $X$. By a categorification of Floer homology, I mean a ...
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What are hyperkähler metrics used for?

It seems that a lot of effort has been devoted to endow holomorphic-symplectic manifolds with hyperkähler metrics. It started with Calabi [4] with $T^*\mathbb{CP}^n$. Other examples include coadjoint ...
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Is tightness decidable?

Given a contact structure on a three-manifold, is there an algorithm to decide whether or not it tight? For concreteness' sake, let's agree to represent the given contact three-manifold via an open ...
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Does $S^4$ have a "symplecto-homeomorphic" structure?

The 4-sphere cannot be a symplectic manifold. In particular, it does not admit an atlas whose transition maps are symplectomorphisms $(\mathbb{R}^4,\omega_\text{std})\to(\mathbb{R}^4,\omega_\text{std})...
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Open conjectures on the Fukaya category coming from physics

This is a slightly vague question (for which I apologize in advance): can somebody give examples to open conjectures on the behavior of the $Fuk(M,\omega)$ that come from string theory and can be ...
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Homotopy equivalence vs weak homotopy equivalence in Gromov's h-principle

My question concerns Gromov's h-principle for open diffeomorphism-invariant partial differential relations on open manifolds; see e.g. Eliashberg/Mishachev: Introduction to the h-principle, §6.2.A and ...
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How should we think about the algebraic moment map?

My question is about the "algebraic moment map", as discussed by Frank Sottile in the final section of this paper, or by Bill Fulton in his Introduction to Toric Varieties, where he referes ...
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To what extent does Floer cohomology detect Hamiltonian non-displaceability of immersed curves?

Floer cohomology for immersed Lagrangians is introduced by Akahi, Manabu; Joyce, Dominic, Immersed Lagrangian Floer theory, J. Differ. Geom. 86, No. 3, 381-500 (2010) and its one-dimension version (...
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Log symplectic vortex equations in Hamiltonian log GW theory

Hamiltonian Gromov-Witten theory(see Mundet-Tian paper) corresponds to a new type of Symplectic vortex equations: Such type of models gives a connection to Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence and Floer ...
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State of research in moduli space of flat connections

I am a recent PhD student trying to settle into a research topic. Even though I have a current project I am working on, I am not particularly enjoying it and would like to switch. Before braving the ...
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Compact Symplectic Fano (strongly monotone) manfiolds

What are known examples of compact symplectic Fano manifolds, apart from those that come from algebraic geometry? We define symplectic Fano manifold as a symplectic manifold $(M,w)$, such that $[c_1(...
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Does quantum cohomology have an $E_\infty$-ring structure?

Consdier the classical singular cohomology ring $H^*(X, \mathbb{Z})$ of a manifold $X$. The $H^n(X, \mathbb{Z})$'s are the cohomology groups of a chain complex and it turns out that the multiplication ...
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Mathematical pendulum and $\mathbb C P^n$

I am very puzzled by the following remark on p.346 in Arnold's book "Mathematical methods of classical mechanics": Another method of construction the same symplectic structure on complex ...
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Analogy between BV formalism and integration by residues

Domenico Fiorenza begins his description of the Batalin–Vilkovisky formalism by pointing out an analogy with integration by residues: Take a top form (density) on $\mathbf R$ resp. space of fields; ...
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The $\frak{sl}_2$-representation on a symplectic manifold

Any symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ carries a representation of $\frak{sl}_2$: Define the maps $$ L: \Omega^\bullet \to \Omega^{\bullet}, ~~~~~~~~~ \Lambda: \Omega^\bullet \to \Omega^{\bullet}, ~~~~~~...
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Floer cohomology from mapping spaces of $\infty$ categories

There's a meta-observation (of Urs Schreiber, who attributes it to Ken Brown and Lurie) that 'cohomology theories come from mapping spaces of $(\infty,1)$ categories'. This is described in detail at ...
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Symplectic structures in rigid geometry

Let $K$ be a non-archimedean valued field (with any further adjectives attached as necessary). I'm looking for references or information about symplectic structures on rigid $K$-spaces. For example, ...
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Third cohomology of symplectic $6$-manifolds

Suppose that $A$ is a finitely generated abelian group with even rank and without $2$-torsion. Does there exist a compact symplectic $6$-manifold $(M,\omega)$ such that $A$ Is isormorphic to $H^{3}(M,\...
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Integrality of primary genus $0$ Gromov-Witten invariants of a Fano manifold

Suppose $(X,\omega)$ is a positively monotone compact symplectic manifold, i.e., after a positive scaling of the symplectic form, we have $c_1(T_X) = [\omega]$ in de Rham cohomology ($T_X$ has well-...
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Gromov's compactness theorem via Sacks-Uhlenbeck and Schoen-Uhlenbeck

Gromov's compactness theorem for pseudo-holomorphic curves, in section 1.5 of "Pseudoholomorphic curves in symplectic manifolds," is very well known. I'm aware of the following two proofs: ...
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Roadmap to Floer homotopy theory?

I am a young postdoc working in symplectic topology. Recently I became intrigued by Floer homotopy, especially after seeing it had been applied to classical questions in symplectic topology. (e.g. ...
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Roadmap to understanding Gromov's Non-squeezing theorem

I'm a graduate student starting out to venture into the areas of Symplectic Geometry/Topology, and was somewhat motivated by the essence of Gromov's non-squeezing theorem which in a sense made me feel ...
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What is the mirror of an algebraic group?

Background: Kontsevich's homological mirror symmetry conjecture posits the existence of pairs $(X,\check X)$ with an equivalence of dg/$A_\infty$-categories $$\mathcal F(X)=\mathcal D^b(\check X)$$ ...
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Determinant as a Hamiltonian

Are there two symplectic structures $\omega_1, \omega_2$ on $M_{2n}(\mathbb{R})$ such that the function $Det:M_{2n}(\mathbb{R})\to \mathbb{R}$ is completely integrable with respect to $\omega_{1}$...
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What is a derived Kähler manifold?

From what I understand, there exists a notion of derived $\mathbb{C}$-analytic space. Let $T_{an}$ be the pregeometry in the sense of Lurie whose underlying $\infty$-category is the category of open ...
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Kernel of "Hat to Plus" in Heegaard Floer Homology

Given a 3-manifold $M$, there is a map of Heegaard Floer groups $$f:\widehat{HF}(M) \to HF^+(M)$$ induced by the inclusion $$\widehat{CF}(M) \to CF^+(M)$$ of the respective chain complexes. Given a ...
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Poincaré recurrence and symplectic packings

Question. Is there any example of a path connected symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ that has infinite volume, but which cannot be packed by an infinite number of symplectic balls of a fixed radius $r$,...
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Homology classes represented by $J$-holomorphic curves

Let $\Sigma$ be a compact Riemann surface with complex structure $j$. Let $(M,J)$ be an almost complex manifold. A map $u: \Sigma \rightarrow M$ is called $J$-holomorphic if $$ du \circ j = J \circ du....
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flexibility of almost contact ``Reeb'' vector fields

New version of the question: Given an odd dimensional manifold $V$, an almost contact structure is a pair of $(\alpha, \omega)$, where $\alpha$ is a non-vanishing 1-form and $\omega$ is a 2-form ...
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The open problem of nth quantization

In trying to explain a quote by E. Nelson, "First quantization is a mystery, but second quantization is a functor!" Baez points out what follows (full text available in this week find; I'm ...
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Is Witten's new method of quantization useful for geometric complexity theory?

The Kempf-Ness theorem (see e.g. arXiv:0912.1132) - that the algebraic quotient of geometric invariant theory is also a symplectic quotient - suggests (to me) that certain physical constructions used ...
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Orlov equivalence between Fukaya categories

In his famous paper https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503632, Orlov proves the following theorem (for simplicity, let's just focus on the Calabi-Yau case) Theorem(Orlov): Suppose that $W: \mathbb{A}^d \...
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From classical to quantum mechanics

Let ($X,\omega$) be a symplectic manifold (phase space of some physical system). Consider the algebra $\mathcal{C}^{\infty}(X,\mathbb{R})$ of smooth functions on $X$ and $[\omega]\in \textrm{H}^{2}_{\...
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How do sutured TQFT fit into the larger TQFT picture?

In https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2431, Honda--Kazez--Matic introduce a definition of (1+1 dimensional) sutured TQFT; see also e.g. Mathews http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5433 and Fink https://arxiv.org/abs/...
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Schoenflies and symplectic topology

The final report from a workshop on Morse theory in low-dimensional and symplectic topology includes the following question, posed by Michael Hutchings: Can we apply symplectic geometry to solve the ...
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Question on Ionel and Parker's paper: Relative Gromov Witten Invariants

In defining Gromov-Witten invariants using symplectic geometry, most of the trouble is to achieve transversality for moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic curves which are multiple covers of simple ones....
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Pseudocycle definition of open Gromov-Witten invariants

I decided my original question was unnecessarily long, and have edited to simply ask the desired question directly (the below is much more direct than my original post, though it may seem just as long!...
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Kontsevich's lecture at Rutgers (1996)

Reading some papers about (homological) mirror symmetry I have found the reference to the unpublished Kontsevich's lecture at Rutgers University (Nov 11, 1996). I would like to know if someone has ...
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Singularities of a morphism from a smooth projective variety to an abelian variety

Let $f: X\to A$ be a (flat) morphism from a smooth complex projective variety $X$ to an abelian variety $A$. Consider the following natural diagram: $$T^*X\overset{df}{\longleftarrow}X\times H^0(A, \...
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Examples of symplectic manifolds whose Betti numbers are not non-decreasing

I am looking for examples of closed symplectic manifolds $(M,\omega)$ whose Betti numbers do not satisfy a non-decreasing property. Meaning, it fails to satisfy $b_k(M) \leq b_{k+2}(M)$ for some $k &...
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Why mu-stratifications?

In the microlocal theory of sheaves developed by Kashiwara and Schapira, there is the notion of a $\mu$-stratification, which is a stratification satisfying a stronger property ("$\mu$") than Whitney'...
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Mapping classes as Lefschetz fibrations over surfaces with positive genus

Let $\Sigma_{g,r}$ be the surface of genus $g$ and $r$ boundary components. It is known that, from a positive factorization of a mapping class $\phi$ in the mapping class group $MCG(\Sigma_{g,r}, \...
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Connection between integrable systems and group actions

An integrable system can be defined as a symplectic manifold together with the maxiumum possible number of Poisson commuting functions on the manifold which are almost everywhere independent. By the ...
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Symplectic invariance of Hodge numbers?

Let $(X,\omega)$ be a compact symplectic manifold. If $J$ is a $\omega$-compatible complex structure on $X$ then $(X,\omega,J)$ is a compact Kähler manifold and so has Hodge numbers $h^{p,q}$. My ...
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Fubini-Study form on weighted projective spaces

As it is known, $\mathbb CP^n$ with Fubini-Study symplectic form can be get by the symplectic reduction of $\mathbb C^{n+1}$ with a symplectic form $\sum_{i=0}^n dz_i\wedge d\bar z_i$ by a hamiltonian ...
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SFT gluing on chain level in Floer homology?

I came across a new type of gluing in the FOOO paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.1660 (maybe not so new to experts). The situation is as follows: one considers a relative (to lagrangian) class and ...
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Goldman symplectic form vs Weil–Petersson symplectic form

I'm confused about the exact multiplicative factor that relates Goldman symplectic form on the $\operatorname{SL}(2,\mathbb R)$-character variety and the Weil–Petersson symplectic form on Teichmüller ...
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