A Legendrian Thurston-Bennequin bound from Khovanov homology.
A splitting formula for the spectral flow of the odd signature operator on 3-manifolds coupled to a path of connections.
Convexité rationnelle des sous-variétés immergées lagrangiennes
Curiosités Lagrangiennes en dimension 4
Dans ce texte, on définit, pour les immersions lagrangiennes de variétés fermées dans , une notion d’aire symplectique enlacée. Puis on construit, dans le cas , un certain nombre de surfaces lagrangiennes enlaçant une aire infinie. Dans le cas des surfaces exactes, elles ont le minimum de points doubles possible permis par la théorie (sauf la sphère), c’est-à-dire moins que prévu par quelques conjectures.
Elementary relative tractor calculus for Legendrean contact structures
For a manifold endowed with a Legendrean (or Lagrangean) contact structure , we give an elementary construction of an invariant partial connection on the quotient bundle . This permits us to develop a naïve version of relative tractor calculus and to construct a second order invariant differential operator, which turns out to be the first relative BGG operator induced by the partial connection.
Fibrations en tores isotropes et lagrangiens
Gauge theoretic invariants of Dehn surgeries on knots.
General spectral flow formula for fixed maximal domain
We consider a continuous curve of linear elliptic formally self-adjoint differential operators of first order with smooth coefficients over a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary together with a continuous curve of global elliptic boundary value problems. We express the spectral flow of the resulting continuous family of (unbounded) self-adjoint Fredholm operators in terms of the Maslov index of two related curves of Lagrangian spaces. One curve is given by the varying domains, the other by...
Generalized Conley-Zehnder index
The Conley-Zehnder index associates an integer to any continuous path of symplectic matrices starting from the identity and ending at a matrix which does not admit as an eigenvalue. Robbin and Salamon define a generalization of the Conley-Zehnder index for any continuous path of symplectic matrices; this generalization is half integer valued. It is based on a Maslov-type index that they define for a continuous path of Lagrangians in a symplectic vector space , having chosen a given reference...
Geometric structures on spaces of weighted submanifolds.
Global finite generating functions for field theory
We introduce an infinite-dimensional version of the Amann-Conley-Zehnder reduction for a class of boundary problems related to nonlinear perturbed elliptic operators with symmetric derivative. We construct global generating functions with finite auxiliary parameters, describing the solutions as critical points in a finite-dimensional space.
Graded lagrangian submanifolds
Graph selectors and viscosity solutions on Lagrangian manifolds
Let be a Lagrangian submanifold of for some closed manifold X. Let be a generating function for which is quadratic at infinity, and let W(x) be the corresponding graph selector for in the sense of Chaperon-Sikorav-Viterbo, so that there exists a subset of measure zero such that W is Lipschitz continuous on X, smooth on and for Let H(x,p)=0 for . Then W is a classical solution to on and extends to a Lipschitz function on the whole of X. Viterbo refers to W as a variational...
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...
Integral submanifolds with closed conformal vector field in Sasakian manifolds.
Invariance of global solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation
We show that every global viscosity solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation associated with a convex and superlinear Hamiltonian on the cotangent bundle of a closed manifold is necessarily invariant under the identity component of the group of symmetries of the Hamiltonian (we prove that this group is a compact Lie group). In particular, every Lagrangian section invariant under the Hamiltonian flow is also invariant under this group.
Lagrangian holonomy ; characteristic elements of a lagrangian foliation
Let be a lagrangian foliation on a symplectic manifold . The characteristic elements of such a foliation associated to a lagrangian total transversal are obtained; they are a generalisation of the characteristic elements given by J.J. Duistermaat [5]. This technique is applied to give a classification of the germs of lagrangian foliation along a compact leaf. Several examples of classification are given.
Locally Lagrangian symplectic and Poisson manifolds.
Maslov index for Hamiltonian systems.
Maslov index for homoclinic orbits of hamiltonian systems