We study symplectic deformation types of minimal symplectic fillings of links of quotient surface singularities. In particular, there are only finitely many symplectic deformation types for each quotient surface singularity.
Symplectic embeddings of balls into specific manifolds are studied, with restrictions and obstructions identified.
problem Understanding symplectic embeddings of balls into complex projective spaces, tori, and K3 surfaces.
method Analyzing embeddings with respect to complex structures compatible with the symplectic form and identifying obstructions.
result Symplectic volume is the primary obstruction for the existence of embeddings of balls into certain manifolds.
Study realizes symplectic algebras and homotopy types on manifolds.
problem Realizing symplectic algebras and homotopy types on manifolds.
method Addressing questions on realizability of symplectic algebras and rational homotopy types by closed symplectic manifolds.
result Realization of symplectic algebras and homotopy types in various dimensions.
Inequalities for symplectic cohomology groups are derived.
problem Symplectic cohomology inequalities
method Morse-type inequalities for symplectic Bott-Chern and Aeppli cohomology groups
result Derived inequalities for symplectic cohomology groups
New flows introduced for symplectic geometry.
problem No specific problem stated; focuses on new flows.
method Introduces several geometric flows on symplectic manifolds.
result Examples include the Hitchin gradient flow and dual Ricci flow.
Study of Type IIA flow on symplectic Lie algebras for geometric structures.
problem Detecting geometric structures like Lagrangian torus fibrations and harmonic almost complex structures.
method Investigate F-harmonic forms and the long-time behavior of the Type IIA flow. result The Type IIA flow helps in detecting desired geometric structures.
Characterizes density-valued symplectic forms on multisymplectic manifolds.
problem Understanding density-valued symplectic forms on multisymplectic manifolds.
method Intrinsic characterization and Darboux-type theorems.
result Proves Darboux-type theorems for density-valued symplectic forms.
We introduce symplectic structures on "Lie pairs" of (real or complex) algebroids as studied by Chen, Stienon and the second author (From Atiyah classes to homotopy Leibniz algebras, arXiv:1204.1075), encompassing homogeneous symplectic spaces, symplectic manifolds with a g-action and holomorphic symplectic…
Given the Euclidean space R2n+2 endowed with a constant symplectic structure and the standard flat connection, and given a polynomial of degree 2 on that space, Baguis and Cahen have defined a reduction procedure which yields a symplectic manifold endowed with a Ricci-type connection. We observe that any symplect…
Proves a vanishing property for symplectic manifold cohomology.
problem Generalizing complex geometry results to symplectic geometry.
method Based on Tseng and Zhou's vanishing property under symplectic flatness.
result Establishes necessity of symplectic flatness for certain results.
Convexity theorem for Hamiltonian actions on conformal symplectic manifolds.
problem Establishing convexity in conformal symplectic geometry.
method Proving a convexity theorem for moment maps under Lee type actions.
result Analog of Kirwan's convexity theorem in conformal symplectic geometry.
Construct symplectic Lefschetz fibrations with any signature and spin type.
problem Existence of symplectic Lefschetz fibrations with arbitrary signature.
method Develop techniques to construct explicit symplectic Lefschetz fibrations over the 2-sphere with any prescribed signature and spin type.
result Solve a long-standing conjecture on the existence of such fibrations with positive signature.
Study preserves symplectic structure in forced discrete mechanical systems.
problem Preserving symplectic structure in forced discrete mechanical systems.
method Analyzes a specific type of forced discrete mechanical system (Q,Ld,fd), preserving a symplectic structure on QimesQ. result The preserved symplectic structure can be seen as Marsden-Weinstein reduction of the canonical symplectic structure.
The Type IIA flow converges on symplectic manifolds, with singularity models identified.
problem Little was known about the singularities of the Type IIA flow.
method Formulated and proved convergence theorems for the Type IIA flow.
result Identified singularity models for the Type IIA flow.
The paper explores complex geometries of 3-forms on symplectic 6-manifolds.
problem Understanding the geometry of 3-forms on symplectic 6-manifolds.
method Investigation of geometries associated with 3-forms of various orbital types.
result Rich geometric structures attached to unstable 3-forms from Calabi-Yau degeneration.
Extends AKSZ to poly-symplectic structures for more complex spaces.
problem Developing a generalized AKSZ formulation for complex target spaces.
method Generalized AKSZ formulation and graded poly-symplectic structures.
result Recovering action functional and poly-symplectic structure of reduced phase space.
This paper establishes a correspondence between Einstein-Hermitian metrics and stability for generalized holomorphic vector bundles over symplectic type generalized Kahler manifolds.
problem Establishing a relationship between Einstein-Hermitian metrics and stability for generalized holomorphic vector bundles.
method Using the moment map framework and Poisson modules, the authors prove the Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondence.
result The equivalence of the existence of an Einstein-Hermitian metric and ψ-polystability of a generalized holomorphic vector bundle. Ancient solutions found for a specific flow on symplectic half-flat structures.
problem Existence of solutions for a particular geometric flow.
method Analyzes Type IIA flow on symplectic half-flat SU(3)-structures.
result Existence of ancient, immortal, and eternal solutions under suitable conditions.
Real Lagrangians in toric manifolds are classified by combinatorial data.
problem Classifying real Lagrangian submanifolds in toric symplectic manifolds.
method Established a real analog of the Delzant construction.
result Real Lagrangians in toric del Pezzo surfaces have all possible diffeomorphism types.
We study the holomorphic symplectic structures on hyper-Kaehler manifolds of type A_{\infty}, by using the torus action.
This paper provides a new method to construct b-symplectic toric manifolds from toric manifolds.
problem Classifying and constructing b-symplectic toric manifolds. method A new method to construct b-symplectic toric manifolds from toric manifolds. result This new method allows for the decomposition of b-symplectic toric manifolds into toric manifolds. Symplectic Torelli groups of positive rational surfaces are trivial or sphere braid groups.
problem Understanding symplectic Torelli groups of rational surfaces.
method Using positivity condition, type of cohomology class, and Lagrangian spherical classes.
result Symplectic Torelli groups of positive rational surfaces are trivial or sphere braid groups.
Existence of symplectic structure shown on Seiberg-Witten moduli space product of Riemann surfaces.
problem Existence of symplectic structure on Seiberg-Witten moduli space.
method Construction of Quillen-type determinant line bundle and showing its curvature proportional to the symplectic form.
result Existence of symplectic structure on the moduli space of Seiberg-Witten equations on product of Riemann surfaces.
Develops a correspondence between symplectic orbits and Grassmannians.
problem Understanding the homotopy types of Grassmannians of linear subspaces in symplectic vector spaces.
method Uses orbit fibrations and linear symplectic reduction to compute homotopy types.
result Recover observations from Arnold, Oh-Park, and Lee-Leung in different cases.
We present a simple explicit construction of hyper-Kaehler and hyper-symplectic (also known as neutral hyper-Kaehler or hyper-parakaehler) metrics in 4D using the Bianchi type groups of class A. The construction underlies a correspondence between hyper-Kaehler and hyper-symplectic structures in dimension four.
First steps towards a classification of irreducible symplectic 4-folds whose integral 2-cohomology with 4-tuple cup product is isomorphic to that of Hilb^2(K3). We prove that any such 4-fold deforms to an irreducible symplectic 4-fold of Type A or Type B. A 4-fold of Type A is a double cover of a (singular) sextic hype…
The moduli space of Higgs bundles is stratified into complex symplectic submanifolds.
problem Constructing a complex Whitney stratification of the moduli space of Higgs bundles.
method Showed that the orbit type decomposition is a complex Whitney stratification with each stratum being a complex symplectic submanifold.
result The moduli space of Higgs bundles is a stratified complex symplectic space.
We compute the homotopy type of the space of T^n-equivariant symplectic embeddings from the standard 2n-dimensional ball of some fixed radius into a 2n-dimensional symplectic-toric manifold M, and use this computation to define a Z-valued step function on the positive real line which is an invariant of the symplectic-t…
Study on symplectic Dirac operators on foliations, estimating eigenvalues.
problem Estimating eigenvalues of transversely symplectic Dirac operators.
method Analysis of transversely symplectic structures and use of Weitzenbock formula.
result Estimation of lower bounds for eigenvalues of transversely symplectic Dirac operators.
Stability of Type IIA flow ensures Kähler properties of Calabi-Yau 3-folds.
problem Ensuring the Kähler property of Calabi-Yau 3-folds under symplectic deformations.
method Established dynamical stability of Type IIA flow near stationary points.
result Stability of Type IIA flow ensures the stability of Kähler properties under symplectic deformations.
Unique symplectic fillings found for specific cotangent bundles.
problem Symplectic fillings of unit cotangent bundles.
method Proved uniqueness up to diffeomorphism.
result Unique symplectically aspherical fillings found.
Symplectic classification for a specific type of singularity in integrable systems.
problem Symplectic classification of integrable systems near singular points of type An. method Real-analytic symplectic normal forms and classification of Lagrangian foliations.
result All integrable systems are symplectically equivalent near singular points of this type.
Geometric flow on symplectic manifolds connects to Type IIA string theory.
problem Finding optimal almost-complex structures compatible with symplectic forms.
method Introduced a geometric flow on 6-dimensional symplectic manifolds with SU(3) holonomy.
result The flow leads to Ricci-flat Kähler metrics and optimal almost-complex structures.
We introduce the cutting construction of possibly non-compact symplectic toric manifolds, in particular, toric symplectic cones that correspond to a weakly convex good cone. Since the symplectization of a toric contact manifold is a toric symplectic cone, we can also construct toric contact manifolds that correspond to…
We consider invariant symplectic connections ∇ on homogeneous symplectic manifolds (M,ω) with curvature of Ricci type. Such connections are solutions of a variational problem studied by Bourgeois and Cahen, and provide an integrable almost complex structure on the bundle of almost complex structures compatible…
Solves Calabi-Yau equation on symplectic manifolds using measurable Kahler metrics.
problem Solving the Calabi-Yau equation on symplectic manifolds.
method Global deformation of almost complex structures compatible with symplectic form, constructing measurable Lipschitz Kahler metric.
result Existence theorem for solutions to the one-form type Calabi-Yau equation on closed symplectic manifolds.
We give an elementary construction of symplectic connections through reduction. This provides an elegant description of a class of symmetric spaces and gives examples of symplectic connections with Ricci type curvature, which are not locally symmetric; the existence of such symplectic connections was unknown.
We consider analytic curves ∇t of symplectic connections of Ricci type on the torus T2n with ∇0 the standard connection. We show, by a recursion argument, that if ∇t is a formal curve of such connections then there exists a formal curve of symplectomorphisms ψt such that $ψ_t\cdot\nabla^…
Stabilized convex symplectic manifolds are equivalent to flexible Weinstein manifolds.
problem Understanding the equivalence between stabilized convex symplectic manifolds and flexible Weinstein manifolds.
method Analyzing the homotopy type and symplectic properties of the manifolds.
result Stabilized convex symplectic manifolds are symplectomorphic to flexible Weinstein manifolds.
Study on contact type hypersurfaces in 4-space, proving no Brieskorn spheres can embed.
problem Constraints on the topology of 3-manifolds as contact type hypersurfaces in R4. method Obstruction derived from Heegaard Floer homology.
result No Brieskorn homology sphere can be embedded in R4. We introduce Morse-type inequalities for a holomorphic circle action on a holomorphic vector bundle over a compact Kaehler manifold. Our inequalities produce bounds on the multiplicities of weights occurring in the twisted Dolbeault cohomology in terms of the data of the fixed points and of the symplectic reduction. Th…
Unique symplectic fillings of odd spheres' cotangent bundles proven.
problem Uniqueness of symplectic fillings for odd-dimensional spheres' cotangent bundles.
method Proof of uniqueness up to diffeomorphism.
result Unique symplectically aspherical fillings of odd spheres' cotangent bundles.
New symplectic barriers found in ball embeddings.
problem Existence of symplectic embeddings with intersections.
method Proving obligatory intersections with symplectic planes.
result Existence of symplectic barriers in ball embeddings.
Paper constructs an invariant for a specific type of complex manifolds.
problem Analyzing an invariant for a specific class of complex manifolds.
method Using equivariant analytic torsion, the paper constructs an invariant for irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifolds with antisymplectic involution.
result A formula for the complex Hessian of the logarithm of the invariant is provided.
This article is an overview of the results obtained in recent years on symplectic connections. We present what is known about preferred connections (critical points of a variational principle). The class of Ricci-type connections (for which the curvature is entirely determined by the Ricci tensor) is described in detai…
Study on types of generalized hypercomplex structures on tori and Kodaira-Thurston surface.
problem Characterizing types of generalized hypercomplex structures.
method Analysis of S2-family of generalized complex structures and study of twistor spaces. result Existence of generalized hypercomplex structures on 4n-dimensional tori with non-maximal types. Estimates symplectic Calabi-Yau equation using Cheng-Yau method.
problem Estimating solutions to the Calabi-Yau equation on symplectic 4-manifolds.
method Applies a Cheng-Yau type estimate in the symplectic setting.
result Proves an a priori estimate for the symplectic Calabi-Yau equation.
We give examples of compact symplectic manifolds with disconnected contact type boundary in dimension 4n for any n≥1. The example is given by a subset of the tangent bundle of a compact quotient of the complex hyperbolic space endowed with the canonical symplectic form plus a generalized magnetic field and its …