Seidel's Representation on the Hamiltonian Group of a Cartesian Product
Author(s) -
Andrés Pedroza
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international mathematics research notices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.757
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1687-0247
pISSN - 1073-7928
DOI - 10.1093/imrn/rnn049
Subject(s) - mathematics , homomorphism , symplectic geometry , pure mathematics , hamiltonian (control theory) , symplectic manifold , cartesian product , quantum cohomology , homology (biology) , symplectomorphism , algebra over a field , discrete mathematics , cohomology , mathematical optimization , biochemistry , chemistry , equivariant cohomology , gene
Let $(M,\omega)$ be a closed symplectic manifold and $\textup{Ham}(M,\omega)$ the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of $(M,\omega)$. Then the Seidel homomorphism is a map from the fundamental group of $\textup{Ham}(M,\omega)$ to the quantum homology ring $QH_*(M;\Lambda)$. Using this homomorphism we give a sufficient condition for when a nontrivial loop $\psi$ in $\textup{Ham}(M,\omega)$ determines a nontrivial loop $\psi\times\textup{id}_N$ in $\textup{Ham}(M\times N,\omega\oplus\eta)$, where $(N,\eta)$ is a closed symplectic manifold such that $\pi_2(N)=0$.
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