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Spectral invariants in Lagrangian Floer theory

Symplectic Geometry 2009-03-23 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

Let (M,ω)(M,\omega) be a symplectic manifold compact or convex at infinity. Consider a closed Lagrangian submanifold LL such that ωπ2(M,L)=0\omega |_{\pi_2(M,L)}=0 and μπ2(M,L)=0\mu|_{\pi_2(M,L)}=0, where μ\mu is the Maslov index. Given any Lagrangian submanifold LL', Hamiltonian isotopic to LL, we define Lagrangian spectral invariants associated to the non zero homology classes of LL, depending on LL and LL'. We show that they naturally generalize the Hamiltonian spectral invariants introduced by Oh and Schwarz, and that they are the homological counterparts of higher order invariants, which we also introduce here, via spectral sequence machinery introduced by Barraud and Cornea. These higher order invariants are new even in the Hamiltonian case. We provide a way to distinguish them one from another and estimate their difference in terms of a geometric quantity.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0612325,
  title  = {Spectral invariants in Lagrangian Floer theory},
  author = {Rémi Leclercq},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0612325},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

34 pages, 7 figures. v2: normalization of the spectral invariants. An explicit computation added (section 4.3). Published in Journal of Modern Dynamics

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