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Symplectic geometry as a prequisite for Heegaard Floer homology
I would like to study Heegaard Floer homology in the future in the connection to knot theory.
I read a wikipedia article and it seems that I need to first learn a symplectic geometry (topology?). I ...
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A proof of simply connectedness of a symplectic quotient
Let $\rho$ be a unitary representation of a torus $G$ on $\mathbb{C}^n$. The action of $\rho$ is Hamiltonian with a moment map $\mu:\mathbb{C}^n \to \mathfrak{g}^*$. Here $\mathfrak{g}^*$ is the dual ...
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Floer theory or Floer homology, an introduction for physicists needed
I need an introduction to Floer theory that's suitable for perhaps a beginning math grad student or a 2nd year physics grad student. The wiki article is sufficiently over my head that it reads as ...
