Contact and symplectic geometry /
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996. |
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| Description: | xviii, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Publications of the Newton Institute 8 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2546368 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I. Geometric Methods
- 1. J-curves and the classification of rational and ruled symplectic 4-manifolds
- 2. Periodic Hamiltonian flows on four dimensional manifolds
- 3. 3-Dimensional contact geometry (based on lectures of Y. Eliashberg and E. Giroux)
- 4. Topology and analysis of contact circles
- 5. Properties of pseudoholomorphic curves in symplectisation IV: asymptotics with degeneracies
- 6. Pseudo-holomorphic curves and Bernoulli shifts
- 7. On closed trajectories of a charge in a magnetic field
- An application of symplectic geometry Viktor
- Part II. Symplectic Invariants
- 8. Introduction to symplectic Floer homology
- 9. Symplectic Floer-Donaldson theory and quantum cohomology
- 10. Relative Floer and quantum cohomology and the symplectic topology of Lagrangian submanifolds
- 11. Cup-length estimate for symplectic fixed points
- 12. Hofer's symplectic energy and Lagrangian intersections
- 13. On the existence of symplectic submanifolds (from lectures of S. Donaldson)