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Study Weinstein structures on toric divisors' complements.

The paper extends Marsden-Weinstein reduction to mechanical presymplectic structures for time-dependent Hamiltonian systems.

This paper constructs a Weinstein trisection for a surface bundle.

Extending work of Chen, we prove the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three for strongly fillable contact structures with either non-vanishing first Chern class or with strong and exact filling having non-trivial canonical bundle. This implies the Weinstein conjecture for certain Stein fillable contact structures obta…

Symplectic 4-manifolds can be divided into three parts with a special structure.

The existence of a "Plastikstufe" for a contact structure implies the Weinstein conjecture for all supporting contact forms.

The study finds tight contact structures without fillings in high dimensions.

We introduce and discuss notions of regularity and flexibility for Lagrangian manifolds with Legendrian boundary in Weinstein domains. There is a surprising abundance of flexible Lagrangians. In turn, this leads to new constructions of Legendrians submanifolds and Weinstein manifolds. For instance, many closed $n$-mani…

In this paper, we introduce the notions of an iterated planar Lefschetz fibration and an iterated planar open book decomposition and prove the Weinstein conjecture for contact manifolds supporting an open book that has iterated planar pages. For $n\geq 1$, we show that a $(2n+1)$-dimensional contact manifold $M$ suppor…

We prove symplectic hypersurfaces in Weinstein domains and give obstructions for manifold boundaries.

In this article we study Weinstein structures endowed with a Lefschetz fibration in terms of the Legendrian front projection. First we provide a systematic recipe for translating from a Weinstein Lefschetz bifibration to a Legendrian handlebody. Then we present several applications of this technique to symplectic topol…

Study non-Weinstein Liouville geometry via hyperbolic dynamics, proving rigidity results.

The paper studies geometric representations of submanifolds using complex-valued functions.

We describe a new algebraic multisymplectic formulation of the classical BRST symmetry. The analogue of Marsden-Weinstein reduction for multisymplectic manifolds is described. We then give a homological description of Multisymplectic Marsden-Weinstein reduction.

A symplectic groupoid $G.:=(G_1 \rightrightarrows G_0)$ determines a Poisson structure on $G_0$. In this case, we call $G.$ a symplectic groupoid of the Poisson manifold $G_0$. However, not every Poisson manifold $M$ has such a symplectic groupoid. This keeps us away from some desirable goals: for example, establishing…

Regularisation method studies Lie algebroids via foliated structures.

New construction provides non-trivial representations for geometric quantisation.

We prove a normal form theorem for Poisson structures around Poisson transversals (also called cosymplectic submanifolds), which simultaneously generalizes Weinstein's symplectic neighborhood theorem from symplectic geometry and Weinstein's splitting theorem. Our approach turns out to be essentially canonical, and as a…

Let U(n) be the unitary group, and $u(n)^*$ the dual of its Lie algebra, equipped with the Kirillov Poisson structure. In their 1983 paper, Guillemin-Sternberg introduced a densely defined Hamiltonian action of a torus of dimension $(n-1)n/2$ on $u(n)^*$, with moment map given by the Gelfand-Zeitlin coordinates. A few …

The paper studies deformations of Lagrangian submanifolds using algebraic tools.

Introduces algorithm for Weinstein handlebodies of certain divisors.

Let $(M,ω)$ be a symplectic manifold endowed with a agrangian foliation ${\cal L}$, it has been shown by Weinstein [16] hat the symplectic structure of $M$ defines on each leaf of ${\cal L}$, connection which curvature and torsion forms vanish identically. uppose that $L_0$ is a compact leaf which Weinstein connection …

Using recent work on high dimensional Lutz twists and families of Weinstein structures we show that any almost contact structure on a 5-manifold is homotopic to a contact structure.

We link Ginzburg algebras to Weinstein manifolds and Legendrian knots.

Generalizes symplectic reduction to cosymplectic groupoid actions.

The paper simplifies symmetries in complex geometric structures.

In this note, we study the Koszul-Brylinski homology of holomorphic Poisson manifolds. We show that it is isomorphic to the cohomology of a certain smooth complex Lie algebroid with values in the Evens-Lu-Weinstein duality module. As a consequence, we prove that the Evens-Lu-Weinstein pairing on Koszul-Brylinski homolo…

Stabilized convex symplectic manifolds are equivalent to flexible Weinstein manifolds.

We show that contact homology distinguishes infinitely many tight contact structures on any orientable, toroidal, irreducible 3-manifold. As a consequence of the contact homology computations, on a very large class of toroidal manifolds, all known examples of universally tight contact structures with nonvanishing torsi…

We classify both local and global Kähler structures admitting totally geodesic homothetic foliations with complex leaves. The main building blocks are related to Swann's twists and are obtained by applying Weinstein's method of constructing symplectic bundles to Kähler data. As a byproduct we obtain new classes of: hol…

Extends symplectic reduction and theorem to Lie algebroids.

We prove generic fibre of Painlevé moduli spaces are Weinstein handlebodies.

We study the singularities of the isotropic skeleton of a Weinstein manifold in relation to Nadler's program of arboreal singularities. By deforming the skeleton via homotopies of the Weinstein structure, we produce a Morse-Bott* representative of the Weinstein homotopy class whose stratified skeleton determines its sy…

New method to encode Weinstein 4-manifolds using multisections with divides.

Study shows non-existence of certain contact structures on odd-dimensional manifolds.

Develops Marsden-Meyer-Weinstein reduction for $k$-contact field theories.

New invariant defined for Weinstein domains, related to Kirby-Thompson's invariant.

Using equivariant Toeplitz operator calculus, we give a new proof of the Atiyah-Weinstein conjecture on the index of Fourier integral operators and the relative index of CR structures.

We established existence of periodic Reeb orbits for a large class of tight contact structures on closed 3-manifolds, notably the Stein fillable structures, based on a fundamental theorem of Cliff Taubes on symplectic 4-manifolds.

The paper explores similarities in even and odd-dimensional geometry.

We introduce mappings between spaces of functions on (super)manifolds that generalize pullbacks with respect to smooth maps but are, in general, nonlinear (actually, formal). The construction is based on canonical relations and generating functions. (The underlying structure is a formal category, which is a "thickening…

In this note we observe that while all overtwisted contact structures on compact 3--manifolds are supported by planar open book decompositions, not all contact structures are. This has relevance to invariants of contact structures and also to the Weinstein conjecture via work of Abbas Cieliebak and Hofer.

Study preserves symplectic structure in forced discrete mechanical systems.

Lie algebroids can not always be integrated into Lie groupoids. We introduce a new object--``Weinstein groupoid'', which is a differentiable stack with groupoid-like axioms. With it, we have solved the integration problem of Lie algebroids. It turns out that every Weinstein groupoid has a Lie algebroid and every Lie al…

Constructs Lagrangian skeleta for curve singularities.

In this note, we prove that the $\pd$- and $\barpd$-operators introduced by Gualtieri for a generalized complex structure coincide with the $\bdees$- and $\bdel$-operators introduced by Alekseev-Xu for Evens-Lu-Weinstein modules of a Lie bialgebroid.

Survey of recent developments in symmetric reductions and controls for Hamiltonian systems.

This is a very biased and incomplete survey of some basic notions, old and new results, as well as open problems concerning Weinstein symplectic manifolds.