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Singularities and Semistable Degenerations for Symplectic Topology

Symplectic Geometry 2017-07-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We overview our recent work defining and studying normal crossings varieties and subvarieties in symplectic topology. This work answers a question of Gromov on the feasibility of introducing singular (sub)varieties into symplectic topology in the case of normal crossings singularities. It also provides a necessary and sufficient condition for smoothing normal crossings symplectic varieties. In addition, we explain some connections with other areas of mathematics and discuss a few directions for further research.

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@article{arxiv.1707.01464,
  title  = {Singularities and Semistable Degenerations for Symplectic Topology},
  author = {Mohammad Farajzadeh Tehrani and Mark McLean and Aleksey Zinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.01464},
  year   = {2017}
}

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18 pages, 2 figures