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Categorical symplectic geometry is the study of a rich collection of invariants of symplectic manifolds, including the Fukaya $A_\infty$-category, Floer cohomology, and symplectic cohomology. Beginning with work of Wehrheim and Woodward in…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Mohammed Abouzaid , Nathaniel Bottman

Area-preserving diffeomorphisms of a 2-disc can be regarded as time-1 maps of (non-autonomous) Hamiltonian flows on solid tori, periodic flow-lines of which define braid (conjugacy) classes, up to full twists. We examine the dynamics…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-10-06 J. -B. van den Berg , R. Ghrist , R. Vandervorst , W. Wojcik

Morse theory relates algebraic topology invariants and the dynamics of the gradient flow of a Morse function, allowing to derive information about one out of the other. In the case of the homology, the construction extends to much more…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Jean-François Barraud , Florian Bertuol

Flow Matching has emerged as a powerful framework for learning continuous transformations between distributions, enabling high-fidelity generative modeling. This work introduces Symmetrical Flow Matching (SymmFlow), a new formulation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Francisco Caetano , Christiaan Viviers , Peter H. N. De With , Fons van der Sommen

We consider colored operads and their actions on categories. As a special example we construct a cobordism category with a colored operad action arising from oriented planar arc diagrams. This is used to construct an invariant of oriented…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Gisa Schäfer , Yasuyoshi Yonezawa

It is the goal of this paper to present the first steps for defining the analogue of Hamiltonian Floer theory for covariant field theory, treating time and space relativistically. While there already exist a number of competing geometric…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Ronen Brilleslijper , Oliver Fabert

We develop connections between the qualitative dynamics of Hamiltonian isotopies on a surface $\Sigma$ and their chain-level Floer theory using ideas drawn from Hofer-Wysocki-Zehnder's theory of finite energy foliations. We associate to…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Dustin Connery-Grigg

There are a number of homological knot invariants, each satisfying an unoriented skein exact sequence, which can be realized as the limit page of a spectral sequence starting at a version of the Khovanov chain complex. Compositions of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Andrew Lobb , Raphael Zentner

We perform a non-linear analysis of a fluid-fluid wavy-stratified flow using a simplified two-fluid model, i.e., the fixed-flux model (FFM) which is an adaptation of shallow water theory for the two-layer problem. Linear analysis using the…

We prove that the rank of the cohomology of a closed symplectic manifold with coefficients in a field of characteristic $p$ is smaller than the number of periodic orbits of any non-degenerate Hamiltonian flow. Following Floer, the proof…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Mohammed Abouzaid , Andrew J. Blumberg

This paper connects two seemingly different ways of studying knots: quantum group invariants and the dynamics of Morse flows. For fibered knots, we define a two-variable series invariant by counting Morse flow loops in the complement. This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Sunghyuk Park

Given a smooth closed manifold M, the Morse-Witten complex associated to a Morse function f and a Riemannian metric g on M consists of chain groups generated by the critical points of f and a boundary operator counting isolated flow lines…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-10 Joa Weber

We show that immersed Lagrangian Floer cohomology in compact rational symplectic manifolds is invariant under Maslov flows such as coupled mean curvature/Kaehler-Ricci flow in the sense of Smoczyk as a pair of self-intersection points is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Joseph Palmer , Chris Woodward , with an erratum written jointly with Hadi Azizi

In~\cite{rotvandervorst} a homology theory --Morse-Conley-Floer homology-- for isolated invariant sets of arbitrary flows on finite dimensional manifolds is developed. In this paper we investigate functoriality and duality of this homology…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-02-04 T. O. Rot , R. C. A. M. Vandervorst

We complete the theoretical framework required for the construction of a Morse homology theory for certain types of forced mean curvature flows. The main result of this paper describes the asymptotic behaviour of these flows as the forcing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-15 Graham Smith

Given a Lie group acting on a manifold $M$ preserving a closed $n+1$-form $\omega$, the notion of homotopy moment map for this action was introduced in Callies-Fregier-Rogers-Zambon [6], in terms of $L_{\infty}$-algebra morphisms. In this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Yael Fregier , Camille Laurent-Gengoux , Marco Zambon

Many dynamical systems can be described in terms of structured flows combining source/sink behavior, cyclic dynamics, and topology-constrained transport. These features arise across a wide range of domains, including physical, engineered,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-05-19 Diego Casadei

This article surveys recent progress of results in topology and dynamics based on techniques of closed one-forms. Our approach allows us to draw conclusions about properties of flows by studying homotopical and cohomological features of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Michael Farber , Dirk Schuetz

In 1995 the author, Jones, and Segal introduced the notion of "Floer homotopy theory". The proposal was to attach a (stable) homotopy type to the geometric data given in a version of Floer homology. More to the point, the question was…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Ralph L. Cohen

This paper introduces a new Floer homology for periodic Reeb orbits on the boundaries of Liouville domains. The construction of this Constrained Floer Homology (CFH) is based on the symplectic area functional, restricted to loops satisfying…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Emilia Konrad