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Symplectic Manifolds with Vanishing Action-Maslov Homomorphism

Symplectic Geometry 2014-10-01 v3

Abstract

The action--Maslov homomorphism I\coπ1(Ham(X,ω))RI\co\pi_1(\text{Ham}(X,\omega))\to\R is an important tool for understanding the topology of the Hamiltonian group of monotone symplectic manifolds. We explore conditions for the vanishing of this homomorphism, and show that it is identically zero when the Seidel element has finite order and the homology satisfies property D\mathcal{D} (a generalization of having homology generated by divisor classes). We use these results to show that I=0I=0 for products of projective spaces and the Grassmannian of 22 planes in \C4\C^4.

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@article{arxiv.0910.5259,
  title  = {Symplectic Manifolds with Vanishing Action-Maslov Homomorphism},
  author = {Mark Branson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.5259},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

21 pages, rewritten to remove unnecessary information and correct typographical errors