Taubes’s proof of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01282-8zbMath1197.57023arXiv0906.2444WikidataQ29037764 ScholiaQ29037764MaRDI QIDQ5850860

Michael Hutchings

Publication date: 20 January 2010

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2444

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theorysymplectic manifoldsSeiberg-Witten invariantsgauge theoryspectral flowHamiltonian vector fieldsReeb orbitsFloer theorycontact formsGromov invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02) Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42)

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