Symplectic Geometry

We prove that smooth quartic threefolds are symplectically irrational, i.e., cannot be related to projective space by a series of symplectic blow-ups, blow-downs, and deformations. This implies that they are algebraically irrational,…

This paper develops new aspects of the interplay between shifted symplectic geometry and classical Poisson geometry, focusing on lagrangian morphisms into 2-shifted symplectic groups. We establish a Lie-type correspondence between such…

We show that prequantization bundles have explicit Legendrian barriers, whose removal obstruct the embedding of long cylinders over Legendrian submanifolds.

Let $L$ be a closed Lagrangian submanifold of a symplectic manifold $(X,\omega)$. Cieliebak and Mohnke define the symplectic area of $L$ as the minimal positive symplectic area of a smooth $2$-disk in $X$ with boundary on $L$. An extremal…

For K\"ahler K3 surfaces we consider Kulikov models of type III tamed by a symplectic form. Our main result shows that the generic smooth fiber admits an almost toric fibration over the intersection complex, which inherits a natural nodal…

We explore Seshadri constants associated to weighted blow-ups of complex projective varieties and demonstrate how to use this notion to construct symplectic embeddings of ellipsoids. We illustrate the utility of this point of view by…

We study the symplectic semi-characteristic of a closed 4n-dimensional symplectic manifold. First, using the even-degree part of the primitive cohomology, we define the symplectic semi-characteristic. Second, using a vector field with…

We construct open Gromov-Witten invariants in genus zero for arbitrary closed symplectic manifolds and embedded relatively spin Lagrangians, which are weakly unobstructed by a bounding cochain. This uses the foundational work of…

For many compound $A_n$ ($cA_n$) singularities $R_f=\mathbb{C}[u,v,x,y]/(uv-f(x,y))$ with crepant resolutions $Y_f$, their mirrors are affine $A_n$ plumbings $W^\circ_f$ of $3$-dimensional lens spaces along circles. We prove two versions of…

Consider a holomorphic contact manifold. Holomorphic discs tangent to the contact planes define a pseudometric on the manifold. This pseudometric integrates to a pseudodistance. When the pseudodistance is a distance, we call the contact…

Barcode entropy is an invariant of a Hamiltonian system -- a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism or a Reeb flow -- measuring its Morse or Floer theoretic complexity at a small scale. More specifically, it is the exponential growth rate of the number…

We prove that the space of symplectic embeddings of $n\geq 1$ standard balls into the standard complex projective plane $\mathbb{C}\mathrm{P}^2$ is homotopy equivalent to the configuration space of $n$ points in $\mathbb{C}\mathrm{P}^2$,…

In this paper, we use derived sheaves to study rigidity phenomena in the cotangent bundles of manifolds endowed with some locally conformally symplectic ($\frak{lcs}$) structure. Taking inspiration from the work of Guillermou, Kashiwara and…

An odd-symplectic form is a closed and maximally non-degenerate $2$-form on a compact odd-dimensional manifold. It describes the dynamics of an autonomous Hamiltonian system on a regular energy level. It is called Zoll if the induced…

We define a dynamical zeta function for nondegenerate Liouville domains, in terms of Reeb dynamics on the boundary. We use filtered equivariant symplectic homology to (i) extend the definition of the zeta function to a more general class of…

We propose a definition of the category $\mathit{Mo}^{\mathrm{mult}}(P)$ of multi-valued Morse homotopy on $P$ consisting of multi-valued functions associated to Lagrangian multi-sections. We then show that a full subcategory…

The Lagrangian skeleton of the rational homology ball $B_{p,q}$, for $0<q<p$ coprime integers, is an immersed but not embedded Lagrangian, called a $(p,q)$-pinwheel. We show that any two embeddings of Lagrangian $(p,q)$-pinwheels in…

The two-boost problem in space mission design asks whether two points of position space can be connected by a Hamiltonian path on a fixed energy level set. We provide a positive answer for a class of systems having the same behaviour at…

The two-boost problem in space mission design asks whether two points of phase space can be connected with the help of two boosts of given energy. We provide a positive answer for a class of systems related to the restricted three-body…

We study homological mirror symmetry for Hirzebruch surface $\mathbb{F}_k$ as a complex manifold by using the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow construction of mirror pair and Morse homotopy. For the toric Fano surfaces, Futaki-Kajiura and the author…