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We define Hamiltonian Floer homology with differential graded (DG) local coefficients for symplectically aspherical manifolds. The differential of the underlying complex involves chain representatives of the fundamental classes of the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Jean-François Barraud , Mihai Damian , Vincent Humilière , Alexandru Oancea

The group of compactly supported Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of a symplectic manifold is endowed with a natural bi-invariant distance, due to Viterbo, Schwarz, Oh, Frauenfelder and Schlenk, coming from spectral invariants in Hamiltonian…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Pierre-Alexandre Mailhot

The purpose of this paper is to give a survey of the various versions of Floer homology for manifolds with contact type boundary that have so far appeared in the literature. Under the name of ``Symplectic homology'' or ``Floer homology for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexandru Oancea

We study the contact Floer homology ${\rm HF}_*(W, h)$ introduced by Merry-Uljarevi\'c, which associates a Floer-type homology theory to a Liouville domain $W$ and a contact Hamiltonian $h$ on its boundary. The main results investigate the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Igor Uljarević , Jun Zhang

In this paper, we construct a Hamiltonian Floer theory based invariant called relative symplectic cohomology, which assigns a module over the Novikov ring to compact subsets of closed symplectic manifolds. We show the existence of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Umut Varolgunes

We introduce a Floer homotopy version of the contact invariant introduced by Kronheimer-Mrowka-Ozv\'ath-Szab\'o. Moreover, we prove a gluing formula relating our invariant with the first author's Bauer-Furuta type invariant, which refines…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Nobuo Iida , Masaki Taniguchi

A positive contactomorphism of a contact manifold $M$ is the end point of a contact isotopy on $M$ that is always positively transverse to the contact structure. Assume that $M$ contains a Legendrian sphere $\Lambda$, and that $(M,\Lambda)$…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Lucas Dahinden

Define a "Liouville domain" to be a compact exact symplectic manifold with contact-type boundary. We use embedded contact homology to assign to each four-dimensional Liouville domain (or subset thereof) a sequence of real numbers, which we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-10 Michael Hutchings

In this paper we are interested in characterizing the standard contact sphere in terms of dynamically convex contact manifolds which admit a Liouville filling with vanishing symplectic homology. We first observe that if the filling is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Myeonggi Kwon , Takahiro Oba

We study the relative symplectic cohomology with the help of an index bounded contact form. For a Liouville domain with an index bounded boundary, we construct a spectral sequence which starts from its classical symplectic cohomology and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Yuhan Sun

Liouville domains have become central objects in symplectic and contact geometry. However, the auxiliary data they involve --- namely, Liouville forms --- and the non-compactness of their completions generate some inconvenience. The notion…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-30 Emmanuel Giroux

In this paper, we explore the interplay between contact structures and sutured monopole Floer homology. First, we study the behavior of contact elements, which were defined by Baldwin and Sivek, under the operation of performing Floer…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Zhenkun Li

This paper helps to clarify the status of cylindrical contact homology, a conjectured contact invariant introduced by Eliashberg, Givental, and Hofer in 2000. We explain how heuristic arguments fail to yield a well-defined homological…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Jo Nelson

We consider symplectic cohomology twisted by sphere bundles, which can be viewed as an analogue of local systems. Using the associated Gysin exact sequence, we prove the uniqueness of part of the ring structure on cohomology of fillings for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Zhengyi Zhou

We define an invariant of contact 3-manifolds with convex boundary using Kronheimer and Mrowka's sutured monopole Floer homology theory (SHM). Our invariant can be viewed as a generalization of Kronheimer and Mrowka's contact invariant for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-16 John A. Baldwin , Steven Sivek

We define Floer homology for a time-independent, or autonomous Hamiltonian on a symplectic manifold with contact type boundary, under the assumption that its 1-periodic orbits are transversally nondegenerate. Our construction is based on…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-30 Frédéric Bourgeois , Alexandru Oancea

In this note, we prove that every closed connected oriented odd-dimensional manifold admits a map of non-zero degree (i.e., a domination) from a tight contact manifold of the same dimension. This provides an odd-dimensional counterpart of a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Sekh Kiran Ajij , Ritwik Chakraborty , Balarka Sen

We consider a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^3$ with sufficiently smooth boundary and prove piecewise Sobolev regularity of vector fields that have piecewise regular curl and divergence, but may be discontinuous across…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Jens Markus Melenk , David Wörgötter

We prove contact big fiber theorems, analogous to the symplectic big fiber theorem by Entov and Polterovich, using symplectic cohomology with support. Unlike in the symplectic case, the validity of the statements requires conditions on the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Yuhan Sun , Igor Uljarevic , Umut Varolgunes

We define a family of symplectic invariants which obstruct exact symplectic embeddings between Liouville manifolds, using the general formalism of linearized contact homology and its L-infinity structure. As our primary application, we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Sheel Ganatra , Kyler Siegel