New geometric and functional analytic ideas arising from problems in symplectic geometry
Speaker: Helmut Hofer
Date: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 to Tue, Oct 24, 2006
Location: PIMS, University of British Columbia
Conference: PIMS 10th Anniversary Lectures
Subject: Mathematics, Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis, Functional Analysis
Class: Scientific
Date: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 to Tue, Oct 24, 2006
Location: PIMS, University of British Columbia
Conference: PIMS 10th Anniversary Lectures
Subject: Mathematics, Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis, Functional Analysis
Class: Scientific
Abstract:
The study of moduli spaces of holomorphic curves in symplectic geometry is the key ingredient for the construction of symplectic invariants. These moduli spaces are suitable compactifications of solution spaces of a first order nonlinear Cauchy-Riemann type operator. The solution spaces are usually not compact due to bubbling-off phenomena and other analytical difficulties.
