The Gromov invariant and the Donaldson-Smith standard surface count.
Hofer’s metrics and boundary depth
We show that if is a closed symplectic manifold which admits a nontrivial Hamiltonian vector field all of whose contractible closed orbits are constant, then Hofer’s metric on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of has infinite diameter, and indeed admits infinite-dimensional quasi-isometrically embedded normed vector spaces. A similar conclusion applies to Hofer’s metric on various spaces of Lagrangian submanifolds, including those Hamiltonian-isotopic to the diagonal in when satisfies...
Linking and the Morse complex
For a Morse function on a compact oriented manifold , we show that has more critical points than the number required by the Morse inequalities if and only if there exists a certain class of link in whose components have nontrivial linking number, such that the minimal value of on one of the components is larger than its maximal value on the other. Indeed we characterize the precise number of critical points of in terms of the Betti numbers of and the behavior of with respect to links....
Submanifolds and the Hofer norm
In [Ch00], Chekanov showed that the Hofer norm on the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group of a geometrically bounded symplectic manifold induces a nondegenerate metric on the orbit of any compact Lagrangian submanifold under the group. In this paper we consider the orbits of more general submanifolds. We show that, for the Chekanov–Hofer pseudometric on the orbit of a closed submanifold to be a genuine metric, it is necessary for the submanifold to be coisotropic, and we show that this condition is...
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