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Morse-Bott Split Symplectic Homology

Symplectic Geometry 2018-11-26 v2

Abstract

We introduce a chain complex associated to a Liouville domain (W,dλ)(\overline{W}, d\lambda) whose boundary YY admits a Boothby--Wang contact form (i.e. is a prequantization space). The differential counts cascades of Floer solutions in the completion WW of W\overline{W}, in the spirit of Morse--Bott homology (as in work of Bourgeois, Frauenfelder arXiv:math/0309373 and Bourgeois-Oancea arXiv:0704.1039). The homology of this complex is the symplectic homology of the completion WW. We identify a class of simple cascades and show that their moduli spaces are cut out transversely for generic choice of auxiliary data. If XX is obtained by collapsing the boundary along Reeb orbits and Σ\Sigma is the quotient of YY by the S1S^1-action induced by the Reeb flow, we also establish transversality for certain moduli spaces of holomorphic spheres in XX and in Σ\Sigma. Finally, under monotonicity assumptions on XX and Σ\Sigma, we show that for generic data, the differential in our chain complex counts elements of moduli spaces that are transverse. Furthermore, by some index estimates, we show that very few combinatorial types of cascades can appear in the differential.

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@article{arxiv.1804.08013,
  title  = {Morse-Bott Split Symplectic Homology},
  author = {Luís Diogo and Samuel T. Lisi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.08013},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

67 pages, 7 figures; expanded the section on orientations of moduli spaces, corrected some errors and improved exposition thanks to comments from the referee

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