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A beginner's introduction to Fukaya categories

Symplectic Geometry 2013-01-30 v1

Abstract

The goal of these notes is to give a short introduction to Fukaya categories and some of their applications. The first half of the text is devoted to a brief review of Lagrangian Floer (co)homology and product structures. Then we introduce the Fukaya category (informally and without a lot of the necessary technical detail), and briefly discuss algebraic concepts such as exact triangles and generators. Finally, we mention wrapped Fukaya categories and outline a few applications to symplectic topology, mirror symmetry and low-dimensional topology. This text is based on a series of lectures given at a Summer School on Contact and Symplectic Topology at Universit\'e de Nantes in June 2011.

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@article{arxiv.1301.7056,
  title  = {A beginner's introduction to Fukaya categories},
  author = {Denis Auroux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.7056},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

42 pages, 13 figures

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