1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003865619707536

Autore

La Bruyere, Jean : de <1645-1696>

Titolo

Oeuvres complètes / La Bruyère ; texte établi et annoté par Julien Benda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Gallimard, 1951

Descrizione fisica

749 p. ; 18 cm

Collana

Bibliothèque de la Pléiade

Altri autori (Persone)

Benda, Julien

Disciplina

848.402

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003634739707536

Autore

Wendl, Chris

Titolo

Holomorphic curves in low dimensions [e-book] : from symplectic ruled surfaces to planar contact manifolds / Chris Wendl

ISBN

9783319913711

3319913719

9783319913698

3319913697

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 294 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Lecture notes in mathematics, 0075-8434 ; 2216

Classificazione

AMS 57R17

AMS 32Q65

LC QA641-670

Disciplina

516.36

Soggetti

Holomorphic mappings

Global analysis (Mathematics)

Manifolds (Mathematics)

Geometry, Differential

Complex manifolds

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction ; 2 Background on Closed Pseudoholomorphic Curves ; 3 Blowups and Lefschetz Fibrations ; 4 Compactness ; 5 Exceptional Spheres ; 6 Rational and Ruled Surfaces ; 7 Uniruled Symplectic 4-Manifolds ; 8 Holomorphic Curves in Symplectic Cobordisms ; 9 Contact 3-Manifolds and Symplectic Fillings ; Appendix ; Bibliography, Index

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph provides an accessible introduction to the applications of pseudoholomorphic curves in symplectic and contact geometry, with emphasis on dimensions four and three. The first half of the book focuses on McDuff's characterization of symplectic rational and ruled surfaces, one of the classic early applications of holomorphic curve theory. The proof presented here uses the language of Lefschetz fibrations and pencils, thus it includes some background on these topics, in addition to a survey of the required analytical results on holomorphic curves. Emphasizing applications rather than technical results, the analytical survey mostly refers to other sources for proofs, while aiming to provide precise statements that are widely applicable, plus some informal discussion of the analytical ideas behind them. The second half of the book then extends this program in two complementary directions: (1) a gentle introduction to Gromov-Witten theory and complete proof of the classification of uniruled symplectic 4-manifolds; and (2) a survey of punctured holomorphic curves and their applications to questions from 3-dimensional contact topology, such as classifying the symplectic fillings of planar contact manifolds. This book will be particularly useful to graduate students and researchers who have basic literacy in symplectic geometry and algebraic topology, and would like to learn how to apply standard techniques from holomorphic curve theory without dwelling more than necessary on the analytical details