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Citation hunting: Floer on spectral sequences

I vaguely remember a YouTube talk that began with a citation from Floer regarding the existence of a spectral sequence. The idea was that given a manifold with a Morse function, we can construct a ...
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Introduction to Floer Theory?

Can anyone suggest a good overview/introduction of the Floer machine for a beginner? (Someone pointed out some intriguing connections to surface mapping class groups, which might be enough incentive ...
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Moduli space of flat connection over homology 3-sphere

I'm trying to understand the space of flat connections of the trivial $\mathrm{SU}(2)$-bundle over a closed, oriented homology three-sphere (for the purpose of understanding the instanton Floer ...
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Banach manifold structure on the moduli space of hybrid trajectories

I am reading the paper "On the Floer homology of cotangent bundles", (arXiv link) , by Abbondandolo and Schwarz and in page $35$ to define the isomorphism between the Morse complex and the ...
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Invariance of morse homology, doubt in proof in book "Morse Theory and Floer homology"

I am reading the book "Morse theory and Floer Homology" by Michele Audin and Mihai Damian. Now I am reading the proof of the following theorem. Link to the statement of the theorem ...
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Bubbling off of a pseudo holomorphic sphere on surface with cylindrical ends

I need some clarification about the reason why we have a sphere bubbling off in the situation described by Seidel in The Symplectic Floer Homology of a Dehn Twist. I’ll try to summarize to the best ...
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Differential of the Rabinowitz Action Functional

On an exact Hamiltonian system $(M,d\alpha,H)$ define the Rabinowitz action functional $$\mathcal{A}^H \colon C^\infty(\mathbb{S}^1,M) \times (0,+\infty) \to \mathbb{R}$$ by $$\mathcal{A}^H(\gamma,\...
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How is the instanton Floer homology of Seifert fibrations related to that of a trivial fibration

My question centers around the relationship of the Chern-Simons theories of a Seifert fibration and the trivial product space $\Sigma_g \times S^1$, and its implication for instanton Floer homology. ...
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$\pi_0${plane fields}$\to\mathbb{Z}_2$

On a 3-manifold $Y$, oriented 2-plane fields $\xi$ are oriented rank-2 subbundles of $TY$. Denote the set of such (up to homotopy) by $\Theta=\pi_0\lbrace\xi\rbrace$. What is an explicit canonical map ...
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Gromov-Floer compactness for C^0 convergence of complex structure/ C^1 convergence of Hamiltonian

Let $M$ be a compact symplectic manifold, $J$ a possibly surface dependent complex structure, and $H$ a Hamiltonian on $M$. I am interested in a variant of Gromov-Floer convergence for solutions of ...
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Floer homology and Invariants for Einstein Field Equations?

Motivation: There have been the instanton (anti-self dual connection) solutions to the Yang-Mills equation $d_A^\ast F_A=0$ which extremize the YM energy $\int_M|F_A|^2$, leading to the Donaldson ...
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Index theorem interpretation of the spectral flow for a pseudo holomorphic curve

Let $(M , \omega)$ be a symplectic manifold, $J$ a compatible almost complex structure. We call pseudo holomorphic strip a solution $u : \mathbb R \times I \to M$ of the equation $\partial_s u + J \...