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Sam Lisi
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Orientations for pseudoholomorphic curves with totally real boundary condition

I am trying to understand what the obstructions are to orienting moduli spaces of pseudoholomorphic curves with totally real boundary condition.

I believe that Fukaya-Oh-Ohta-Ono have shown that if a Lagrangian is relatively spin, the moduli spaces of disks with boundary in it can be oriented.

My question has 3 related parts:

  1. is there any sense in which the FOOO relative spin condition is also necessary?

  2. if I consider curves of higher genus and/or more boundary components, do I need to impose additional conditions on the Lagrangian to guarantee orientability of the moduli spaces?

  3. There has been a fair bit of recent work in the case in which the Lagrangian is the fixed point set of an anti-symplectic involution (Crétois, Georgieva, Georgieva-Zinger). Are the orientation difficulties in this case the same as in the general case, or do some special features appear here?

Sam Lisi
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