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A note on coherent orientations for exact Lagrangian cobordisms

Symplectic Geometry 2019-02-05 v2

Abstract

Let LR×J1(M)L \subset \mathbb R \times J^1(M) be a spin, exact Lagrangian cobordism in the symplectization of the 1-jet space of a smooth manifold MM. Assume that LL has cylindrical Legendrian ends Λ±J1(M)\Lambda_\pm \subset J^1(M). It is well known that the Legendrian contact homology of Λ±\Lambda_\pm can be defined with integer coefficients, via a signed count of pseudo-holomorphic disks in the cotangent bundle of MM. It is also known that this count can be lifted to a mod 2 count of pseudo-holomorphic disks in the symplectization R×J1(M)\mathbb R \times J^1(M), and that LL induces a morphism between the Z2\mathbb Z_2-valued DGA:s of the ends Λ±\Lambda_\pm in a functorial way. We prove that this hold with integer coefficients as well. The proofs are built on the technique of orienting the moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic disks using capping operators at the Reeb chords. We give an expression for how the DGA:s change if we change the capping operators.

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@article{arxiv.1707.04219,
  title  = {A note on coherent orientations for exact Lagrangian cobordisms},
  author = {Cecilia Karlsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.04219},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

41 pages, final version, accepted for publication in Quantum Topology. More details have been added to some of the proofs

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