buondì,
vi segnalo due seminari di geometria per la prossima settimana.
Ringrazio Paolo Ghiggini per aver invitato entrambi.
a presto,
Bruno
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MARTEDI' 21 OTTOBRE 2014
SEMINARI DI GEOMETRIA
14:00-15:00, Sala Seminari (Dip. Matematica)
When is a Stein manifold merely symplectic?
Chris Wendl (University College London)
Abstract:
Stein manifolds are objects originating in complex geometry that also
naturally carry symplectic structures. In recent years, the study of
Stein structures has increasingly been dominated by the question of
"rigid vs. flexible": on the flexible side, the so-called
"subcritical" Stein manifolds satisfy an h-principle in higher
dimensions, so their Stein homotopy type is determined by the homotopy
class of the underlying almost complex structure, and all
"interesting" invariants of such structures vanish. At the other end
of the spectrum, one should expect to find pairs of Stein manifolds
that are symplectomorphic but not Stein deformation equivalent, though
no examples are yet known. In this talk, I will explain where NOT to
look for examples: in complex dimension 2, there is a large class of
Stein domains that exist somewhere between rigid and flexible, meaning
that while the h-principle does not hold in any strict sense, their
Stein deformation type is completely determined by their symplectic
deformation type. This result depends on some joint work with Sam Lisi
and Jeremy Van Horn-Morris involving the relationship between Stein
structures and Lefschetz fibrations, which can sometimes be realised
as foliations by J-holomorphic curves.
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MERCOLEDI' 22 OTTOBRE 2014
SEMINARI DI GEOMETRIA
11:00-12:00, Sala Seminari (Dip. Matematica)
Subcritical contact surgeries and the topology of symplectic fillings
Klaus Niederkrüger (Université de Toulouse)
Abstract:
(joint work with P. Ghiggini and C. Wendl) By a result of Eliashberg,
every symplectic filling of a three-dimensional contact connected sum
is obtained by performing a boundary connected sum on another
symplectic filling. I will explain a partial generalization of this
result for subcritical contact surgeries in higher dimensions: given
any 5-dimensional contact manifold that arises from another contact
manifold by subcritical surgery, its belt sphere must be nullhomotopic
in any symplectically aspherical filling.