Symplectic homology for a Liouville cobordism (possibly filled at the negative end) generalizes simultaneously the symplectic homology of Liouville domains and the Rabinowitz-Floer homology of their boundaries. I intend to explain a conceptual framework within which one can understand it, and give a sample application which shows how it can be used in order to obstruct cobordisms between contact manifolds.
We shall give a construction of the quantized sheaf of a Lagrangian submanifold in T∗N and explain a number of features and applications.
We show that there is a 1-parameter family of monotone Lagrangian tori in the cotangent bundle of the 3-sphere with the following property: every compact orientable monotone Lagrangian with non-trivial Floer cohomology is not Hamiltonian-displaceable from either the zero-section or one of the tori in the family. The proof involves studying a version of the wrapped Fukaya category of the cotangent bundle which includes monotone Lagrangians. Time permitting, we may also discuss an extension to other cotangent bundles.
In this talk, I will discuss two measurements of Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds in symplectizations: their length and their relative Gromov width. The Gromov width, in particular, is a fundamental global invariant of symplectic manifolds, and a relative version of that width helps understand the geometry of Lagrangian submanifolds of a symplectic manifold. Lower bounds on both the length and the width may be produced by explicit constructions; this talk will concentrate on upper bounds that arise from a filtered version of Legendrian contact homology, a Floer-type invariant.
The dichotomy between overtwisted and tight contact structures has been central to the classification of contact structures in dimension 3. Ozsvath-Szabo's contact invariant in Heegaard Floer homology proved to be an efficient tool to distinguish tight contact structures from overtwisted ones. In this talk, I will motivate, define, and discuss some properties of a refinement of the contact invariant in Heegaard Floer homology.
I will describe a formalism for (Lagrangian) Floer theory wherein the output is not a deformation of the cohomology ring, but of the Pontryagin algebra of based loops, or of the analogous algebra of based discs (with boundary on the Lagrangian). I will explain the consequences of quantum cohomology, and the expected applications of this theory.
In this talk, we study two natural circle actions in Floer theory, one on symplectic cohomology and one on the Hochschild homology of the Fukaya category. We show that the geometric open-closed string map between these two complexes is S1-equivariant, at a suitable chain level. In particular, there are induced maps between equivariant homology theories, natural with respect to Gysin sequences, which are isomorphisms whenever the non-equivariant map is.
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.
Kronheimer and Mrowka recently used monopole Floer homology to define an invariant of sutured manifolds, following work of Juhász in Heegaard Floer homology. In this talk, I will construct an invariant of a contact structure on a 3-manifold with boundary as an element of the associated sutured monopole homology group. I will discuss several interesting properties of this invariant, including gluing maps and an exact triangle associated to bypass attachment, and explain how this construction leads to an invariant in the sutured version of instanton Floer homology as well.
The Fukaya category of a fibration with singularities W : M→C, or Fukaya-Seidel category, enlarges the Fukaya category of M by including certain non-compact Lagrangians and asymmetric perturbations at infinity involving W; objects include Lefschetz thimbles if W is a Lefschetz fibration. I will recall this category and then explain a criterion, in the spirit of work of Abouzaid and Abouzaid-Fukaya-Oh-Ohta-Ono, for when a finite collection of Lagrangians split-generates such a fibration. The new ingredients needed include a Floer homology group associated to (M,W) and the Serre functor.
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