Tag - Embedded contact homology

Oliver Edtmair: The Subleading Asymptotics of Symplectic Weyl Laws

3rd November, 2023

Spectral invariants defined via Embedded Contact Homology (ECH) or the closely related Periodic Floer Homology (PFH) satisfy a Weyl law: Asymptotically, they recover symplectic volume. This Weyl law has led to striking applications in dynamics (smooth closing lemma) and symplectic geometry (simplicity conjecture). In this talk, I will report on work in progress concerning the subleading asymptotics of symplectic Weyl laws. I will explain the connection to symplectic packing problems and the algebraic structure of groups of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms.

Keon Choi: New combinatorial computations of embedded contact homology

7th March, 2014

Embedded contact homology is an invariant of a contact three-manifold, which is recently shown to be isomorphic to Heegaard Floer homology and Seiberg-Witten Floer homology. However, ECH chain complex depends on the contact form on the manifold and the almost complex structure on its symplectization. This fact can be used to extract symplectic geometric information (e.g. ECH capacities) but explicit computation of the chain complexes has been carried out only on a few cases. Extending the work of Hutchings-Sullivan, we combinatorially describe the ECH chain complexes of T3 with general T2-invariant contact forms and certain almost complex structures.