Developments in symplectic topology (Q2739384)

From the foreword: Symplectic topology is an area of mathematics that has seen rapid and continuous development in the past fifteen years. I give here a view of some of the past and present progress. As the field is very large, I shall focus on work and ideas of Donaldson, on symplectic submanifolds and symplectic Lefschetz pencils. This material also provides good reason to weave in a survey of some of what is known about the differences between the notions of symplectomorphism and diffeomorphism, both for a fixed pair of symplectic manifolds and for families.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0963.00022].