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Consider a Hamiltonian action of a compact Lie group on a symplectic manifold which has the strong Lefschetz property. We establish an equivariant version of the Merkulov-Guillemin $d\delta$-lemma and an improved version of the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yi Lin , Reyer Sjamaar

By coupling a Hamiltonian mechanical system with a linear Hamiltonian field theory one obtains an infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian system with regularizing nonlinearity, where the underlying phase space is given by the product of a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Oliver Fabert , Niek Lamoree

We prove a generalization of the Conley conjecture: Every Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of a closed symplectic manifold has infinitely many periodic orbits if the first Chern class vanishes over the second fundamental group. In particular, we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-07 Doris Hein

We develop techniques for defining and working with virtual fundamental cycles on moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic curves which are not necessarily cut out transversally. Such techniques have the potential for applications as foundations…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-04 John Pardon

We introduce in this paper a field theory on symplectic manifolds that are fibered over a real surface with interior marked points and cylindrical ends. We assign to each such object a morphism between certain tensor products of quantum and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Francois Lalonde

We prove an extension of the Index Theorem for Morse-Sturm systems of the form $-V''+RV=0$, where R is symmetric with respect to a (non positive) symmetric bilinear form, and thus the corresponding differential operator is not self-adjoint.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. Giannoni , A. Masiello , P. Piccione , D. Tausk

Consider the variational bicomplex for $\mathcal{E}$ the space of sections of a graded, affine bundle. Local functionals $\mathcal{F}$ are defined as an equivalence class of density-valued functionals, which represent Lagrangian densities.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Michele Schiavina , Jonas Schnitzer

This paper meticulously revisit and study the flux geometry of any compact oriented manifold $(M; W)$. We generalize several well-known factorization results, exhibit some orbital conditions for the study of flux geometry, give a proof of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Stéphane Tchuiaga

We introduce two tools, dynamical thickening and flow selectors, to overcome the infamous discontinuity of the gradient flow endpoint map near non-degenerate critical points. More precisely, we interpret the stable fibrations of certain…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-07-04 Joa Weber

We study Morse theory on noncompact manifolds equipped with exhaustions by compact pieces, defining the Morse homology of a pair which consists of the manifold and related geometric/homotopy data. We construct a collection of Morse data…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Taesu Kim

Following a proposal of Fukaya-Ono and the exploration by B. Parker, we introduce a new transversality condition, the FOP transversality condition, for sections of orbifold vector bundles $\mathcal{E} \rightarrow \mathcal{U}$ when both…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Shaoyun Bai , Guangbo Xu

The symplectic cohomology of certain symplectic manifolds $W$ with non-compact ends modelled on the positive symplectization of a compact contact manifold $Y$ is shown to vanish whenever there is a positive loop of contactomorphisms of $Y$…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Dylan Cant , Jakob Hedicke , Eric Kilgore

In part I, using the theory of $\infty$-categories, we constructed a natural ``continuous action'' of $\operatorname {Ham} (M, \omega) $ on the Fukaya category of a closed monotone symplectic manifold. Here we show that this action is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Yasha Savelyev

In this paper, we apply spectral invariants, constructed in [Oh5,8], to the study of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of closed symplectic manifolds $(M,\omega)$. Using spectral invariants, we first construct an invariant norm called the {\it…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yong-Geun Oh

Let $X$ be a Hamiltonian vector field defined on a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$, $g$ a nowhere vanishing smooth function defined on an open dense subset $M^0$ of $M$. We will say that the vector field $Y = gX$ is conformally…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Charles-Michel Marle

We quantize the problem considered by Bott-Samelson who applied Morse theory to any compact symmetric space $G/K$ and the associated real flag manifold $G_{\mathbb{R}}/B$ which is a real locus of a complex partial flag variety…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Hanwool Bae , Chi Hong Chow , Naichung Conan Leung

In this paper we first construct smooth Morse-Lyapunov functions of attractors for nonsmooth dynamical systems. Then we prove that all open attractor neighborhoods of an attractor have the same homotopy type. Based on this basic fact we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-05-27 Desheng Li

A Hamiltonian circle action on a compact symplectic manifold is known to be a closed geodesic with respect to the Hofer metric on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. If the momentum map attains its minimum or maximum at an isolated…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Yael Karshon , Jennifer Slimowitz

On symplectic manifolds, we introduce a Morse-type complex with elements generated by pairs of critical points of a Morse function. The differential of the complex consists of gradient flows and an integration of the symplectic structure…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-25 David Clausen , Xiang Tang , Li-Sheng Tseng

We study the Floer-theoretic interaction between disjointly supported Hamiltonians by comparing Floer-theoretic invariants of these Hamiltonians with the ones of their sum. These invariants include spectral invariants, boundary depth and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Yaniv Ganor , Shira Tanny