Geometry & Topology, Vol. 9 (2005)
Paper no. 21, pages 935--970.
Symplectomorphism groups and isotropic skeletons
Joseph Coffey
Abstract.
The symplectomorphism group of a 2-dimensional surface is homotopy
equivalent to the orbit of a filling system of curves. We give a
generalization of this statement to dimension 4. The filling system of
curves is replaced by a decomposition of the symplectic 4-manifold (M,
omega) into a disjoint union of an isotropic 2-complex L and a disc
bundle over a symplectic surface Sigma which is Poincare dual to a
multiple of the form omega. We show that then one can recover the
homotopy type of the symplectomorphism group of M from the orbit of
the pair (L, Sigma). This allows us to compute the homotopy type of
certain spaces of Lagrangian submanifolds, for example the space of
Lagrangian RP^2 in CP^2 isotopic to the standard one.
Keywords.
Lagrangian, symplectomorphism, homotopy
AMS subject classification.
Primary: 57R17.
Secondary: 53D35.
E-print: arXiv:math.SG/0404496
E-print: arXiv:math.SG/0404496
DOI: 10.2140/gt.2005.9.935
Submitted to GT on 25 June 2004.
(Revised 24 September 2004.)
Paper accepted 18 January 2005.
Paper published 25 May 2005.
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Joseph Coffey
Courant Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, New York University
251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012, USA
Email: coffey@cims.nyu.edu
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