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Morse flow trees and Legendrian contact homology in 1-jet spaces

Symplectic Geometry 2014-11-11 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

Let LJ1(M)L\subset J^1(M) be a Legendrian submanifold of the 1-jet space of a Riemannian nn-manifold MM. A correspondence is established between rigid flow trees in MM determined by LL and boundary punctured rigid pseudo-holomorphic disks in TMT^\ast M, with boundary on the projection of LL and asymptotic to the double points of this projection at punctures, provided n2n\le 2, or provided n>2n>2 and the front of LL has only cusp edge singularities. This result, in particular, shows how to compute the Legendrian contact homology of LL in terms of Morse theory.

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@article{arxiv.math/0509386,
  title  = {Morse flow trees and Legendrian contact homology in 1-jet spaces},
  author = {Tobias Ekholm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0509386},
  year   = {2014}
}

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118 pages, 21 figures