Questions tagged [floer-homology]
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Spin-c structures for a closed,oriented 3-manifold equipped with a null homologous knot
Let $Y$ be a closed, oriented 3-manifold equipped with an oriented null homologous knot $K$. I want to understand the relative $spin^c$ structures for $(Y,K)$. There is canonical zero surgery $Y_0(K)$...
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Maslov Index in heegaard floer homology
Can anyone explain what is definition of maslov index in Heegaard Floer homology? I am puzzled> Thank you.,
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Floer equation and Cauchy Riemann equation
Consider a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ with the property that $\pi_2(M) = 0$. Given a time dependent hamiltonian $H_t$ on $M$, and a $\omega$-compatible almost complex structure J on M, we may ...
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Lagrangian Floer theory for negative monotone symplectic manifolds and Lagrangians
In the paper "Floer cohomology of Lagrangian intersections and pseudo-holomorphic Disks I", Oh shows that for a compact monotone Lagrangian $L$ in a closed monotone symplectic manifold $M$ ...
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Index of Floer operator for Hamiltonian vs Lagrangian Floer Homology
I am trying to see if there is a way to translate the computation of the index of the Floer operator for Hamiltonian Floer to Lagrangian Floer. Hamiltonian Floer homology is a theory that counts (...
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Seidel's calculation of the Floer cohomology of a cotangent fibre and its Dehn twist
I am reading Seidel's paper on exact Lagrangian submanifolds in $T^*S^n$ and the graded Kronecker quiver, and in Lemma 2 (2) he claims the following fact: if $F_0$ is a cotangent fibre and $F_1$ is $\...
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Definition of Floer complex in Floer's "Morse theory for Lagrangian intersections"
I am moving the first steps into Lagrangian Floer theory and I am trying to understand the construction, as in the original paper, for the field $\mathbb{Z}_2$ (no orientations) and $\pi_2(P,L) = 0$.
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Gluing maps in Floer Homology and boundary conditions
Recently, I have been trying to a construction of a gluing map regarding the Lagrangian Floer Homology of two fibers in the cotangent bundle $T^*M$ of a manifold , in order to prove that the map $\...
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Gluing of Morse-type trajectories in "Floer Homology of Cotangent bundles"
In the paper by A. Abbondadolo and M.Schwarz, "On the Floer homology of cotangent bundles" arXiv link, to prove the desired isomorphism between the Floer homology and the Morse homology of ...
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Gluing of hybrid trajectories in Floer homology
In the paper by A. Abbondadolo and M.Schwarz, "On the Floer homology of cotangent bundles" arXiv link, to prove the desired isomorphism between the Floer homology and the Morse homology of ...
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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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Cup product and PSS map
Let $(M,\omega)$ be a symplectic manifold and let $H$ a Hamiltonian function. If $M$ is not closed we consider $H$ to be linear at infinity to ensure that $HF^*(H)$ is well-defined (I'm particularly ...
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Compactness properties in floer homology of cotangent bundles in the non-periodic case
Following the paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0408280.pdf I have been interested in studying the case of solutions $x:[0,1] \rightarrow T^*M$ such that $x(0)\in T_{q_0}^*M$ and $x(1)\in T_{q_1}^*M$ ...
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Examples and classification of holomorphic strips in $(\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^n,\mathbb{R}\mathbb{P}^n)$
Consider an exact isotopy $\phi_t$ of $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^n$ such that $\phi_1(\mathbb{R}\mathbb{P}^n)\pitchfork \mathbb{R}\mathbb{P}^n$. When trying to compute the Lagrangian Floer cohomology of $(\...
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Bubbling of disks when proving compactness properties in Lagrangian floer cohomology
When defining lagrangian floer cohomology , as it's done in the paper "Floer cohomology of lagrangian Intersections and pseudo holomorphic disks I,II" we will need to look into the ...
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Maslov index equal to $2$ implies that the disk is not multiply covered
In the paper Floer cohomology of lagrangian intersections and pseudo-holomorphic disks in page $1009$ the authors claim that a map $w:D^2\rightarrow S^2$ with $w|_{\partial D^2}\subset L$, where $L$ ...
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Relating the Morse index with the Maslov index
In the following paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0408280.pdf there is created an isomorphism between the Floer Homology of an hamiltonian functional $H$ in the cotangent bundle and the the Morse ...
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Laplace eigenvalue and floer theory
I'm trying to study the spectrum operator via Floer Theory. The idea is to consider the Rayleigh quotient as an operator on the Hilbert space $W^{1,2}$ and to study it's negative gradient flow.
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Regularity of the taut foliation
In Eliashberg-Thurston's famous paper "Confoliations" Corollary 3.2.11, they proved that Irreducible three manifold with $b_{1}>0$ admits semi-fillable contact structure using Gabai's theorem in ...
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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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why $H_{1}(\Sigma)\cong H_{1}(Sym^{g}(\Sigma))$ ?
In paper holomorphic disks and 3-manifold invariants, Ozsvath and Szabo connstruct two
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$\mathcal {f} : H_{1}(\Sigma)\rightarrow H_{1}(Sym^{g}(\Sigma))$ and
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