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Framed $E_2$ structures in Floer theory

Symplectic Geometry 2024-05-14 v3

Abstract

We resolve the long-standing problem of constructing the action of the operad of framed (stable) genus-00 curves on Hamiltonian Floer theory; this operad is equivalent to the framed E2E_2 operad. We formulate the construction in the following general context: we associate to each compact subset of a closed symplectic manifold a new chain-level model for symplectic cohomology with support, which we show carries an action of a model for the chains on the moduli space of framed genus 00 curves. This construction turns out to be strictly functorial with respect to inclusions of subsets, and the action of the symplectomorphism group. In the general context, we appeal to virtual fundamental chain methods to construct the operations over fields of characteristic 00, and we give a separate account, over arbitrary rings, in the special settings where Floer's classical transversality approach can be applied. We perform all constructions over the Novikov ring, so that the algebraic structures we produce are compatible with the quantitative information that is contained in Floer theory. Over fields of characteristic 00, our construction can be combined with results in the theory of operads to produce explicit operations encoding the structure of a homotopy BVBV algebra. In an appendix, we explain how to extend the results of the paper from the class of closed symplectic manifolds to geometrically bounded ones.

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@article{arxiv.2210.11027,
  title  = {Framed $E_2$ structures in Floer theory},
  author = {Mohammed Abouzaid and Yoel Groman and Umut Varolgunes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.11027},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

82 pages, 9 figures. Comments welcome. Numerous minor changes

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