Timeline for Where does the notion of pseudoholomorphic curve come from?
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| Jul 30, 2017 at 10:06 | comment | added | Ben McKay | Floer's 1986 Duke paper assumes Kaehlerity of his manifolds, so doesn't actually use pseudoholomorphic curves. In his 1987 Bulletin of the AMS paper, he uses pseudoholomorphic curves, for the first time in his work, as far as I can see; he references Gromov's famous 1985 paper. So the ink trail suggests that Gromov saw the relevance of pseudoholomorphic curves before Floer. I suppose some people might know for certain the actual story behind the papers, which could be different. The Salamon paper you mention gives credit to Gromov for earlier use of pseudoholomorphic curves. | |
| Dec 17, 2012 at 21:14 | history | answered | Andrew Lobb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |