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Boundary framings for locally conformally symplectic four-manifolds

Algebraic Topology 2025-04-30 v5

Abstract

We construct a rational homotopy-theoretic model for a classifying space of locally conformally symplectic structures on four-manifolds, and use it to definition a cobordism category of three-manifolds `anchored' by principal Ω2S2\Omega^2 S^2 - bundles (§2\S2, generalizing contact structures). Powerful sl2sl_2 - representation-valued Hodge-Lefschetz cohomology (going back to Chern and Weil), taking values in the Z\mathbb{Z}-graded category of bidifferential modules of Angella, Otiman, and Tardini is available for its study. This is an extended revision with a detailed introduction replacing the final section. The original concern of the paper was a characteristic two issue which remains unchanged.

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@article{arxiv.2502.05983,
  title  = {Boundary framings for locally conformally symplectic four-manifolds},
  author = {J Morava},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.05983},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Extensively revised, but the introduction is at the end