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Record Nr.

UNINA9910734888903321

Autore

Geiges Hansjörg

Titolo

A Course on Holomorphic Discs / / by Hansjörg Geiges, Kai Zehmisch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2023

ISBN

3-031-36064-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 189 p. 11 illus.)

Collana

Birkhäuser Advanced Texts Basler Lehrbücher, , 2296-4894

Disciplina

516.36

Soggetti

Functions of complex variables

Geometry, Differential

Global analysis (Mathematics)

Manifolds (Mathematics)

Functional analysis

Several Complex Variables and Analytic Spaces

Differential Geometry

Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds

Functional Analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Gromov's Nonsqueezing Theorem -- Compactness -- Bounds of Higher Order -- Elliptic Regularity -- Transversality.

Sommario/riassunto

This textbook, based on a one-semester course taught several times by the authors, provides a self-contained, comprehensive yet concise introduction to the theory of pseudoholomorphic curves. Gromov’s nonsqueezing theorem in symplectic topology is taken as a motivating example, and a complete proof using pseudoholomorphic discs is presented. A sketch of the proof is discussed in the first chapter, with succeeding chapters guiding the reader through the details of the mathematical methods required to establish compactness, regularity, and transversality results. Concrete examples illustrate many of the more complicated concepts, and well over 100 exercises are distributed throughout the text. This approach helps the reader to gain a thorough understanding of the powerful analytical tools needed for the study of more advanced topics in symplectic topology. This text can be used as



the basis for a graduate course, and it is also immensely suitable for independent study. Prerequisites include complex analysis, differential topology, and basic linear functional analysis; no prior knowledge of symplectic geometry is assumed. This book is also part of the Virtual Series on Symplectic Geometry.