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Infinitely many non-isotopic real symplectic forms on $S^2 \times S^2$

Symplectic Geometry 2020-12-09 v2

Abstract

Let (S2,ω)(S^2,\omega) be a symplectic sphere, and let τ ⁣:S2S2\tau \colon S^2 \to S^2 be an anti-symplectic involution of (S2,ω)(S^2,\omega). We consider the product (S2,ω)×(S2,ω)(S^2,\omega) \times (S^2,\omega) endowed with the anti-symplectic involution τ×τ\tau \times \tau, and study the space of monotone anti-invariant symplectic forms on this four-manifold. We show that this space is disconnected. In addition, during the course of the proof, we produce a diffeomorphism of the grassmannian (2,4) which induces the identity map on all homology and homotopy groups, but which is not homotopic to the identity.

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@article{arxiv.2008.10412,
  title  = {Infinitely many non-isotopic real symplectic forms on $S^2 \times S^2$},
  author = {Gleb Smirnov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.10412},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

9 pages; nothing's changed; accepted for publication by the Journal of Topology