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Symplectomorphism groups and isotropic skeletons

Symplectic Geometry 2014-11-11 v4 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

The symplectomorphism group of a 2-dimensional surface is homotopy equivalent to the orbit of a filling system of curves. We give a generalization of this statement to dimension 4. The filling system of curves is replaced by a decomposition of the symplectic 4-manifold (M, omega) into a disjoint union of an isotropic 2-complex L and a disc bundle over a symplectic surface Sigma which is Poincare dual to a multiple of the form omega. We show that then one can recover the homotopy type of the symplectomorphism group of M from the orbit of the pair (L, Sigma). This allows us to compute the homotopy type of certain spaces of Lagrangian submanifolds, for example the space of Lagrangian RP^2 in CP^2 isotopic to the standard one.

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@article{arxiv.math/0404496,
  title  = {Symplectomorphism groups and isotropic skeletons},
  author = {Joseph Coffey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0404496},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Published by Geometry and Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol9/paper21.abs.html