On the Floer homology of plumbed three-manifolds.
The first two authors have recently defined Rabinowitz Floer homology groups associated to a separating exact embedding of a contact manifold into a symplectic manifold . These depend only on the bounded component of . We construct a long exact sequence in which symplectic cohomology of maps to symplectic homology of , which in turn maps to Rabinowitz Floer homology , which then maps to symplectic cohomology of . We compute , where is the unit cosphere bundle of a closed manifold...
We construct a version of rational Symplectic Field Theory for pairs , where is an exact symplectic manifold, where is an exact Lagrangian submanifold with components subdivided into subsets, and where both and have cylindrical ends. The theory associates to a -graded chain complex of vector spaces over , filtered with filtration levels. The corresponding -level spectral sequence is invariant under deformations of and has the following property: if is obtained by joining a...
We discuss the gluing principle in Morse-Floer homology and show that there is a gap in the traditional proof of the converse gluing theorem. We show how this gap can be closed by the use of a uniform tubular neighborhood theorem. The latter result is only stated here. Details are given in the authors' paper, Tubular neighborhoods and the Gluing Principle in Floer homology theory, to appear.
We give an example of a symplectic manifold with a stable hypersurface such that nearby hypersurfaces are typically unstable.