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A Floer homology for exact contact embeddings

Symplectic Geometry 2007-10-05 v1

Abstract

In this paper we construct the Floer homology for an action functional which was introduced by Rabinowitz and prove a vanishing theorem. As an application, we show that there are no displaceable exact contact embeddings of the unit cotangent bundle of a sphere of dimension greater than three into a convex exact symplectic manifold with vanishing first Chern class. This generalizes Gromov's result that there are no exact Lagrangian embeddings of a sphere into a complex vector space.

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@article{arxiv.0710.0972,
  title  = {A Floer homology for exact contact embeddings},
  author = {Kai Cieliebak and Urs Frauenfelder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.0972},
  year   = {2007}
}

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43 pages, 1 figure

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