Monthly Archives: September 2011

Some open problems on symplectic embeddings and the Weinstein conjecture

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

Today was the first meeting this semester of the student Floer theory seminar.  I introduced some open problems and conjectures, at least some of which should be approachable. The problems I discussed fall under two general themes: 1. SYMPLECTIC EMBEDDINGS: … Continue reading →

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Do direct calculations of ECH have any value?

Posted on September 7, 2011 by

The embedded contact homology of a contact 3-manifold is now known to be isomorphic to the Heegaard Floer homology .  This follows from work of Taubes identifying ECH with the Seiberg-Witten Floer cohomology , together with work in progress by … Continue reading →

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