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Contact and Symplectic Topology

Author : Frédéric Bourgeois
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319020366
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Contact and Symplectic Topology by : Frédéric Bourgeois

Download or read book Contact and Symplectic Topology written by Frédéric Bourgeois and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symplectic and contact geometry naturally emerged from the mathematical description of classical physics. The discovery of new rigidity phenomena and properties satisfied by these geometric structures launched a new research field worldwide. The intense activity of many European research groups in this field is reflected by the ESF Research Networking Programme "Contact And Symplectic Topology" (CAST). The lectures of the Summer School in Nantes (June 2011) and of the CAST Summer School in Budapest (July 2012) provide a nice panorama of many aspects of the present status of contact and symplectic topology. The notes of the minicourses offer a gentle introduction to topics which have developed in an amazing speed in the recent past. These topics include 3-dimensional and higher dimensional contact topology, Fukaya categories, asymptotically holomorphic methods in contact topology, bordered Floer homology, embedded contact homology, and flexibility results for Stein manifolds.

An Introduction to Contact Topology

Author : Hansjörg Geiges
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139467956
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introduction to Contact Topology by : Hansjörg Geiges

Download or read book An Introduction to Contact Topology written by Hansjörg Geiges and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text on contact topology is a comprehensive introduction to the subject, including recent striking applications in geometric and differential topology: Eliashberg's proof of Cerf's theorem via the classification of tight contact structures on the 3-sphere, and the Kronheimer-Mrowka proof of property P for knots via symplectic fillings of contact 3-manifolds. Starting with the basic differential topology of contact manifolds, all aspects of 3-dimensional contact manifolds are treated in this book. One notable feature is a detailed exposition of Eliashberg's classification of overtwisted contact structures. Later chapters also deal with higher-dimensional contact topology. Here the focus is on contact surgery, but other constructions of contact manifolds are described, such as open books or fibre connected sums. This book serves both as a self-contained introduction to the subject for advanced graduate students and as a reference for researchers.

Lectures on Symplectic Geometry

Author : Ana Cannas da Silva
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 354045330X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Lectures on Symplectic Geometry by : Ana Cannas da Silva

Download or read book Lectures on Symplectic Geometry written by Ana Cannas da Silva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of these notes is to provide a fast introduction to symplectic geometry for graduate students with some knowledge of differential geometry, de Rham theory and classical Lie groups. This text addresses symplectomorphisms, local forms, contact manifolds, compatible almost complex structures, Kaehler manifolds, hamiltonian mechanics, moment maps, symplectic reduction and symplectic toric manifolds. It contains guided problems, called homework, designed to complement the exposition or extend the reader's understanding. There are by now excellent references on symplectic geometry, a subset of which is in the bibliography of this book. However, the most efficient introduction to a subject is often a short elementary treatment, and these notes attempt to serve that purpose. This text provides a taste of areas of current research and will prepare the reader to explore recent papers and extensive books on symplectic geometry where the pace is much faster. For this reprint numerous corrections and clarifications have been made, and the layout has been improved.

Riemannian Geometry of Contact and Symplectic Manifolds

Author : David E. Blair
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475736045
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Book Synopsis Riemannian Geometry of Contact and Symplectic Manifolds by : David E. Blair

Download or read book Riemannian Geometry of Contact and Symplectic Manifolds written by David E. Blair and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book endorsed by the Sunyer Prize Committee (A. Weinstein, J. Oesterle et. al.).

Symplectic Geometry and Topology

Author : Yakov Eliashberg
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780821886892
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (868 download)

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Book Synopsis Symplectic Geometry and Topology by : Yakov Eliashberg

Download or read book Symplectic Geometry and Topology written by Yakov Eliashberg and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symplectic geometry has its origins as a geometric language for classical mechanics. But it has recently exploded into an independent field interconnected with many other areas of mathematics and physics. The goal of the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute Graduate Summer School on Symplectic Geometry and Topology was to give an intensive introduction to these exciting areas of current research. Included in this proceedings are lecture notes from the following courses: Introductionto Symplectic Topology by D. McDuff; Holomorphic Curves and Dynamics in Dimension Three by H. Hofer; An Introduction to the Seiberg-Witten Equations on Symplectic Manifolds by C. Taubes; Lectures on Floer Homology by D. Salamon; A Tutorial on Quantum Cohomology by A. Givental; Euler Characteristicsand Lagrangian Intersections by R. MacPherson; Hamiltonian Group Actions and Symplectic Reduction by L. Jeffrey; and Mechanics: Symmetry and Dynamics by J. Marsden. Information for our distributors: Titles in this series are copublished with the Institute for Advanced Study/Park City Mathematics Institute. Members of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) receive a 20% discount from list price.

Bordered Heegaard Floer Homology

Author : Robert Lipshitz
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1470428881
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Bordered Heegaard Floer Homology written by Robert Lipshitz and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors construct Heegaard Floer theory for 3-manifolds with connected boundary. The theory associates to an oriented, parametrized two-manifold a differential graded algebra. For a three-manifold with parametrized boundary, the invariant comes in two different versions, one of which (type D) is a module over the algebra and the other of which (type A) is an A∞ module. Both are well-defined up to chain homotopy equivalence. For a decomposition of a 3-manifold into two pieces, the A∞ tensor product of the type D module of one piece and the type A module from the other piece is ^HF of the glued manifold. As a special case of the construction, the authors specialize to the case of three-manifolds with torus boundary. This case can be used to give another proof of the surgery exact triangle for ^HF. The authors relate the bordered Floer homology of a three-manifold with torus boundary with the knot Floer homology of a filling.

Contact and Symplectic Geometry

Author : Charles Benedict Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521570862
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Contact and Symplectic Geometry written by Charles Benedict Thomas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents some of the lectures and research during the special programme held at the Newton Institute in 1994. The two parts each contain a mix of substantial expository articles and research papers that outline important and topical ideas. Many of the results have not been presented before, and the lectures on Floer homology is the first avaliable in book form.Symplectic methods are one of the most active areas of research in mathematics currently, and this volume will attract much attention.

Virtual Fundamental Cycles in Symplectic Topology

Author : John W. Morgan
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1470450143
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Virtual Fundamental Cycles in Symplectic Topology by : John W. Morgan

Download or read book Virtual Fundamental Cycles in Symplectic Topology written by John W. Morgan and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The method of using the moduli space of pseudo-holomorphic curves on a symplectic manifold was introduced by Mikhail Gromov in 1985. From the appearance of Gromov's original paper until today this approach has been the most important tool in global symplectic geometry. To produce numerical invariants of these manifolds using this method requires constructing a fundamental cycle associated with moduli spaces. This volume brings together three approaches to constructing the “virtual” fundamental cycle for the moduli space of pseudo-holomorphic curves. All approaches are based on the idea of local Kuranishi charts for the moduli space. Workers in the field will get a comprehensive understanding of the details of these constructions and the assumptions under which they can be made. These techniques and results will be essential in further applications of this approach to producing invariants of symplectic manifolds.

Holomorphic Curves in Low Dimensions

Author : Chris Wendl
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319913719
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis Holomorphic Curves in Low Dimensions by : Chris Wendl

Download or read book Holomorphic Curves in Low Dimensions written by Chris Wendl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph provides an accessible introduction to the applications of pseudoholomorphic curves in symplectic and contact geometry, with emphasis on dimensions four and three. The first half of the book focuses on McDuff's characterization of symplectic rational and ruled surfaces, one of the classic early applications of holomorphic curve theory. The proof presented here uses the language of Lefschetz fibrations and pencils, thus it includes some background on these topics, in addition to a survey of the required analytical results on holomorphic curves. Emphasizing applications rather than technical results, the analytical survey mostly refers to other sources for proofs, while aiming to provide precise statements that are widely applicable, plus some informal discussion of the analytical ideas behind them. The second half of the book then extends this program in two complementary directions: (1) a gentle introduction to Gromov-Witten theory and complete proof of the classification of uniruled symplectic 4-manifolds; and (2) a survey of punctured holomorphic curves and their applications to questions from 3-dimensional contact topology, such as classifying the symplectic fillings of planar contact manifolds. This book will be particularly useful to graduate students and researchers who have basic literacy in symplectic geometry and algebraic topology, and would like to learn how to apply standard techniques from holomorphic curve theory without dwelling more than necessary on the analytical details. This book is also part of the Virtual Series on Symplectic Geometry http://www.springer.com/series/16019

Introduction to Symplectic Topology

Author : Dusa McDuff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198794894
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Symplectic Topology written by Dusa McDuff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last number of years powerful new methods in analysis and topology have led to the development of the modern global theory of symplectic topology, including several striking and important results. This new third edition of a classic book in the feild includes updates and new material to bring the material right up-to-date.

J-holomorphic Curves and Symplectic Topology

Author : Dusa McDuff
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821887467
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis J-holomorphic Curves and Symplectic Topology by : Dusa McDuff

Download or read book J-holomorphic Curves and Symplectic Topology written by Dusa McDuff and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main goal of this book is to establish the fundamental theorems of the subject in full and rigourous detail. In particular, the book contains complete proofs of Gromov's compactness theorem for spheres, of the gluing theorem for spheres, and of the associatively of quantum multiplication in the semipositive case. The book can also serve as an introduction to current work in symplectic topology.

An Introduction to Symplectic Geometry

Author : Rolf Berndt
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780821820568
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (25 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introduction to Symplectic Geometry by : Rolf Berndt

Download or read book An Introduction to Symplectic Geometry written by Rolf Berndt and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symplectic geometry is a central topic of current research in mathematics. Indeed, symplectic methods are key ingredients in the study of dynamical systems, differential equations, algebraic geometry, topology, mathematical physics and representations of Lie groups. This book is a true introduction to symplectic geometry, assuming only a general background in analysis and familiarity with linear algebra. It starts with the basics of the geometry of symplectic vector spaces. Then, symplectic manifolds are defined and explored. In addition to the essential classic results, such as Darboux's theorem, more recent results and ideas are also included here, such as symplectic capacity and pseudoholomorphic curves. These ideas have revolutionized the subject. The main examples of symplectic manifolds are given, including the cotangent bundle, Kähler manifolds, and coadjoint orbits. Further principal ideas are carefully examined, such as Hamiltonian vector fields, the Poisson bracket, and connections with contact manifolds. Berndt describes some of the close connections between symplectic geometry and mathematical physics in the last two chapters of the book. In particular, the moment map is defined and explored, both mathematically and in its relation to physics. He also introduces symplectic reduction, which is an important tool for reducing the number of variables in a physical system and for constructing new symplectic manifolds from old. The final chapter is on quantization, which uses symplectic methods to take classical mechanics to quantum mechanics. This section includes a discussion of the Heisenberg group and the Weil (or metaplectic) representation of the symplectic group. Several appendices provide background material on vector bundles, on cohomology, and on Lie groups and Lie algebras and their representations. Berndt's presentation of symplectic geometry is a clear and concise introduction to the major methods and applications of the subject, and requires only a minimum of prerequisites. This book would be an excellent text for a graduate course or as a source for anyone who wishes to learn about symplectic geometry.

Elementary Symplectic Topology and Mechanics

Author : Franco Cardin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319110268
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Elementary Symplectic Topology and Mechanics written by Franco Cardin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short tract on the essentials of differential and symplectic geometry together with a basic introduction to several applications of this rich framework: analytical mechanics, the calculus of variations, conjugate points & Morse index, and other physical topics. A central feature is the systematic utilization of Lagrangian submanifolds and their Maslov-Hörmander generating functions. Following this line of thought, first introduced by Wlodemierz Tulczyjew, geometric solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, Hamiltonian vector fields and canonical transformations are described by suitable Lagrangian submanifolds belonging to distinct well-defined symplectic structures. This unified point of view has been particularly fruitful in symplectic topology, which is the modern Hamiltonian environment for the calculus of variations, yielding sharp sufficient existence conditions. This line of investigation was initiated by Claude Viterbo in 1992; here, some primary consequences of this theory are exposed in Chapter 8: aspects of Poincaré's last geometric theorem and the Arnol'd conjecture are introduced. In Chapter 7 elements of the global asymptotic treatment of the highly oscillating integrals for the Schrödinger equation are discussed: as is well known, this eventually leads to the theory of Fourier Integral Operators. This short handbook is directed toward graduate students in Mathematics and Physics and to all those who desire a quick introduction to these beautiful subjects.

Surgery on Contact 3-Manifolds and Stein Surfaces

Author : Burak Ozbagci
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 366210167X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Surgery on Contact 3-Manifolds and Stein Surfaces written by Burak Ozbagci and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about an investigation of recent developments in the field of sympletic and contact structures on four- and three-dimensional manifolds from a topologist’s point of view. In it, two main issues are addressed: what kind of sympletic and contact structures we can construct via surgery theory and what kind of sympletic and contact structures are not allowed via gauge theory and the newly invented Heegaard-Floer theory.

First Steps in Differential Geometry

Author : Andrew McInerney
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461477328
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book First Steps in Differential Geometry written by Andrew McInerney and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differential geometry arguably offers the smoothest transition from the standard university mathematics sequence of the first four semesters in calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations to the higher levels of abstraction and proof encountered at the upper division by mathematics majors. Today it is possible to describe differential geometry as "the study of structures on the tangent space," and this text develops this point of view. This book, unlike other introductory texts in differential geometry, develops the architecture necessary to introduce symplectic and contact geometry alongside its Riemannian cousin. The main goal of this book is to bring the undergraduate student who already has a solid foundation in the standard mathematics curriculum into contact with the beauty of higher mathematics. In particular, the presentation here emphasizes the consequences of a definition and the careful use of examples and constructions in order to explore those consequences.

A Brief Introduction To Symplectic And Contact Manifolds

Author : Augustin Banyaga
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814696722
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Book Synopsis A Brief Introduction To Symplectic And Contact Manifolds by : Augustin Banyaga

Download or read book A Brief Introduction To Symplectic And Contact Manifolds written by Augustin Banyaga and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book introduces the basic notions in Symplectic and Contact Geometry at the level of the second year graduate student. It also contains many exercises, some of which are solved only in the last chapter.We begin with the linear theory, then give the definition of symplectic manifolds and some basic examples, review advanced calculus, discuss Hamiltonian systems, tour rapidly group and the basics of contact geometry, and solve problems in chapter 8. The material just described can be used as a one semester course on Symplectic and Contact Geometry.The book contains also more advanced material, suitable to advanced graduate students and researchers.

From Stein to Weinstein and Back

Author : Kai Cieliebak
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821885332
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book From Stein to Weinstein and Back written by Kai Cieliebak and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the interplay between complex and symplectic geometry in affine complex manifolds. Affine complex (a.k.a. Stein) manifolds have canonically built into them symplectic geometry which is responsible for many phenomena in complex geometry and analysis. The goal of the book is the exploration of this symplectic geometry (the road from 'Stein to Weinstein') and its applications in the complex geometric world of Stein manifolds (the road 'back').