Mathematics – Symplectic Geometry
Scientific paper
2007-07-24
Mathematics
Symplectic Geometry
(v5) 290 pages. New material added
Scientific paper
A Kuranishi space is a topological space with a Kuranishi structure, defined by Fukaya and Ono. Kuranishi structures occur naturally on moduli spaces of J-holomorphic curves in symplectic geometry. Let Y be an orbifold and R a commutative ring or Q-algebra. We define two kinds of Kuranishi homology KH_*(Y;R). The chain complex KC_*(Y;R) defining KH_*(Y;R) is spanned over R by [X,f,G], for X a compact oriented Kuranishi space with corners, f : X --> Y smooth, and G "gauge-fixing data" which makes Aut(X,f,G) finite. Our main result is that these are isomorphic to singular homology. We define Poincare dual Kuranishi cohomology, isomorphic to compactly-supported cohomology. We define five kinds of Kuranishi (co)bordism spanned by isomorphism classes[X,f] for X a compact oriented Kuranishi space without boundary and f : X --> Y smooth. They are new topological invariants, and we show they are very large. These theories are powerful new tools in symplectic geometry. Defining virtual cycles and chains for moduli spaces of J-holomorphic curves is trivial in Kuranishi (co)homology. There is no need to perturb moduli spaces, and no problems with transversality. This gives major simplifications in Lagrangian Floer cohomology. We define new Gromov-Witten type invariants in Kuranishi bordism, over Z not Q. We sketch how these may be used to prove the integrality conjecture for Gopakumar-Vafa invariants. This paper is surveyed in arXiv:0710.5634.
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