Symplectic homology, autonomous Hamiltonians, and Morse-Bott moduli spaces
Abstract
We define Floer homology for a time-independent, or autonomous Hamiltonian on a symplectic manifold with contact type boundary, under the assumption that its 1-periodic orbits are transversally nondegenerate. Our construction is based on Morse-Bott techniques for Floer trajectories. Our main motivation is to understand the relationship between linearized contact homology of a fillable contact manifold and symplectic homology of its filling.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.0704.1039,
title = {Symplectic homology, autonomous Hamiltonians, and Morse-Bott moduli spaces},
author = {Frédéric Bourgeois and Alexandru Oancea},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.1039},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Final version, 92 pages, 7 figures, index of notations. Remark 4.9 in Version 1 is wrong. To correct it we modified the weights for the Sobolev spaces along the gradient trajectories (Figure 3). Proposition 4.8 in Version 1 is now split into Propositions 4.8 and 4.9. This version contains full details for the second derivative estimates in Lemma 4.20