The Viterbo-Maslov Index in Dimension Two
Symplectic Geometry
2012-05-03 v1
Abstract
We prove a formula that expresses the Viterbo-Maslov index of a smooth strip in an oriented 2-manifold with boundary curves contained in 1-dimensional submanifolds in terms the degree function on the complement of the union of the two submanifolds.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1205.0535,
title = {The Viterbo-Maslov Index in Dimension Two},
author = {Joel Robbin and Dietmar Salamon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.0535},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
35 pages, 8 figures