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Andreas Floer died in 1991. His visions and contributions have significantly influenced the development of mathematics. His main interest centred on the fields of dynamical systems, symplectic geometry, Yang-Mills theory and low dimensional topology. Motivated by the global existence problem of periodic solutions for Hamiltonian systems and starting from ideas of Conley, Gromov and Witten, he developed his Floer homology, providing powerful methods which can be applied to problems. This volume opens with a short biography and three papers of Andreas Floer. It then presents a collection of contributions and survey articles, as well as research papers on his fields of interest.

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Author:   Helmut Hofer ,  Clifford H. Taubes ,  Alan Weinstein ,  Eduard Zehnder
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Edition:   1995 ed.
Volume:   133
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   2.560kg
ISBN:  

9783764350444

ISBN 10:   376435044
Pages:   691
Publication Date:   28 September 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Floer’s work on monopoles.- Monopoles on asymptotically flat manifolds.- The configuration space of Yang-Mills-Higgs theory on asymptotically flat manifolds.- Instanton homology and Dehn surgery.- Some remarks on symplectic monodromy of Milnor fibrations.- Floer homology.- Topologie des systèmes de Moser en dimension quatre.- Morse-Bott theory and equivariant cohomology.- Some simple continuity properties of symplectic capacities.- Floer’s work on instanton homology, knots and surgery.- Fukaya-Floer homology and gluing formulae for polynomial invariants.- On generating families.- Floer’s infinite dimensional Morse theory and homotopy theory.- Periodic solutions of elliptic type for strongly nonlinear Hamiltonian systems.- Topology of 2-knots in ?4 and symplectic geometry.- The ends of the monopole moduli space over ?3#, (homology sphere): Part I.- The ends of the monopole moduli space over ?3#, (homology sphere): Part II.- Using Floer’s exact triangle to compute Donaldson invariants.- A symplectic fixed point theorem for toric manifolds.- Floer homology and Novikov rings.- Symplectic invariants and Hamiltonian dynamics.- An irrational ruled 4-manifold.- Floer cohomology of Lagrangian intersections and pseudoholomorphic discs, III: Arnold-Givental conjecture.- An obstacle to non-Lagrangian intersections.- A Mayer-Vietoris model for Donaldson-Floer theory.- The cup-product on the Thom-Smale-Witten complex, and Floer cohomology.- The symplectic structure on moduli space.- Chern-Simons gauge theory as a string theory.

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