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Embedded contact homology of prequantization bundles

Symplectic Geometry 2024-05-22 v3

Abstract

The 2011 PhD thesis of Farris demonstrated that the ECH of a prequantization bundle over a Riemann surface is isomorphic as a Z/2Z-graded group to the exterior algebra of the homology of its base. We extend this result by computing the Z-grading on the chain complex, permitting a finer understanding of this isomorphism and a stability result for ECH. We fill in a number of technical details, including the Morse-Bott direct limit argument and the classification of certain J-holomorphic buildings. The former requires the isomorphism between filtered Seiberg-Witten Floer cohomology and filtered ECH as established by Hutchings-Taubes. The latter requires the work on higher asymptotics of pseudoholomorphic curves by Cristofaro-Gardiner--Hutchings--Zhang to obtain the writhe bounds necessary to appeal to an intersection theory argument of Hutchings-Nelson.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2007.13883,
  title  = {Embedded contact homology of prequantization bundles},
  author = {Jo Nelson and Morgan Weiler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.13883},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

87 pages, to appear in the Journal of Symplectic Geometry