Symplectic Topology and Extemal Rays.
Symplectic topology as the geometry of generating functions.
Symplectic topology of integrable hamiltonian systems, I : Arnold-Liouville with singularities
Symplectic torus bundles and group extensions.
Symplectomorphism groups and isotropic skeletons.
The discriminant and oscillation lengths for contact and Legendrian isotopies
We define an integer-valued non-degenerate bi-invariant metric (the discriminant metric) on the universal cover of the identity component of the contactomorphism group of any contact manifold. This metric has a very simple geometric definition, based on the notion of discriminant points of contactomorphisms. Using generating functions we prove that the discriminant metric is unbounded for the standard contact structures on and . On the other hand we also show by elementary arguments that the...
The geography of simply-connected symplectic manifolds
By using the Seiberg-Witten invariant we show that the region under the Noether line in the lattice domain is covered by minimal, simply connected, symplectic 4-manifolds.
The Gromov invariant and the Donaldson-Smith standard surface count.
The nonuniqueness of Chekanov polynomials of Legendrian knots.
Tight contact structures on Seifert manifolds over with one singular fibre.
Toric structures on near-symplectic 4-manifolds
A near-symplectic structure on a 4-manifold is a closed 2-form that is symplectic away from the 1-dimensional submanifold along which it vanishes and that satisfies a certain transversality condition along this vanishing locus. We investigate near-symplectic 4-manifolds equipped with singular Lagrangian torus fibrations which are locally induced by effective Hamiltonian torus actions. We show how such a structure is completely characterized by a singular integral affine structure on the base of...
Transverse contact structures on Seifert 3-manifolds.
Trois constructions en topologie symplectique
Twisted Alexander polynomials, symplectic 4-manifolds and surfaces of minimal complexity
Let M be a 4-manifold which admits a free circle action. We use twisted Alexander polynomials to study the existence of symplectic structures and the minimal complexity of surfaces in M. The results on the existence of symplectic structures summarize previous results of the authors in [FV08a,FV08,FV07]. The results on surfaces of minimal complexity are new.
Une structure de contact, même tendue, est plus ou moins tordue
Virtual Legendrian isotopy
An elementary stabilization of a Legendrian knot L in the spherical cotangent bundle ST*M of a surface M is a surgery that results in attaching a handle to M along two discs away from the image in M of the projection of the knot L. A virtual Legendrian isotopy is a composition of stabilizations, destabilizations and Legendrian isotopies. A class of virtual Legendrian isotopy is called a virtual Legendrian knot. In contrast to Legendrian knots, virtual Legendrian knots enjoy the...
Weak symplectic fillings and holomorphic curves
We prove several results on weak symplectic fillings of contact -manifolds, including: (1) Every weak filling of any planar contact manifold can be deformed to a blow up of a Stein filling. (2) Contact manifolds that have fully separating planar torsion are not weakly fillable—this gives many new examples of contact manifolds without Giroux torsion that have no weak fillings. (3) Weak fillability is preserved under splicing of contact manifolds along symplectic pre-Lagrangian tori—this gives many...
Witten's conjecture and Property P.
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