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Floer-Fukaya theory and topological elliptic objects

Algebraic Topology 2014-08-15 v5 Category Theory Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Inspired by Segal-Stolz-Teichner project for geometric construction of elliptic (tmf) cohomology, and ideas of Floer theory and of Hopkins-Lurie on extended TFT's, we geometrically construct some RingRing-valued representable cofunctors on the homotopy category of topological spaces. Using a classical computation in Gromov-Witten theory due to Seidel we show that for one version of these cofunctors π2\pi_{2} of the representing space is non trivial, provided a certain categorical extension of Kontsevich conjecture holds for the symplectic manifold CPn \mathbb{CP} ^{n}, for some some n1n \geq 1. This gives further evidence for existence of generalized cohomology theories built from field theories living on a topological space.

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@article{arxiv.1202.4118,
  title  = {Floer-Fukaya theory and topological elliptic objects},
  author = {Yasha Savelyev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.4118},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Withdrawn as most of what I intended here now appears in complete detail in: Global Fukaya category and the space of A_\infty categories I and II, after trading complete Segal spaces for quasi-categories. There are some further algebraic topological ambitions in this withdrawn research announcement, and I do plan to get to them at some point

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