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Math-Physics Joint Seminar

Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 3:00pm

Mohammed Abouzaid

MIT

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 3C8

Rescheduled due to flight delay

In real dimensions greater than 4, I will explain how a smooth manifold underlying an affine variety admits uncountably many distinct (Wein)stein structures, of which countably many have finite type, and which are distinguished by their symplectic cohomology groups. Starting with a Lefschetz fibration on such a variety, I shall per- form an explicit sequence of appropriate surgeries, keeping track of the changes to the Fukaya category and hence, by understanding open-closed maps, obtain descriptions of symplectic cohomology af- ter surgery. (joint work with P. Seidel)