Symplectic cohomology of contractible surfaces
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Author(s)
Jackson-Hanen, David Sean
Advisor(s)
Paul Seidel.
Date Issued
2014
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
In 2004, Seidel and Smith proved that the Liouville manifold associated to Ramanujams surface contains a Lagrangian torus which is not displaceable by Hamiltonian isotopy, and hence that higher products of this manifold provide non-standard symplectic structures on Euclidean space which are convex at infinity. I extend these techniques a wide class of smooth contractible affine surfaces of log-general type to produce a similar torus. I then show that the existence of this torus implies the non-vanishing of the symplectic cohomology of the Liouville manifolds associated to these surfaces, thus confirming a portion of McLeans conjecture that a smooth variety has vanishing symplectic cohomology if and only if it is affine ruled.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, 2014.
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Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-56).
Subjects
Mathematics.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
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