An introduction to Floer theory

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• Alexia Corradini, University of Cambridge
• Friday 08 March 2024, 16:00-17:00
• MR13.

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Modern symplectic topology owes its most important and powerful tool, known as Floer theory, to Gromov’s pseudo-holomorphic curve theory. In the late 80s, Floer introduced an infinite-dimensional analogue of Morse homology defined using counts of pseudo-holomorphic strips with boundaries on a Lagrangian. In suitable settings, this recovers the homology of the Lagrangian.

This talk is an introduction to Floer theory; I will go through its basic constructions, illustrate with some simple examples, and hopefully convey some of its appeal.

This talk is part of the Junior Geometry Seminar series.

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