FLOER MINI-MAX THEORY, THE CERF DIAGRAM, AND THE SPECTRAL INVARIANTS

Title & Authors
FLOER MINI-MAX THEORY, THE CERF DIAGRAM, AND THE SPECTRAL INVARIANTS
Oh, Yong-Geun;

Abstract
The author previously defined the spectral invariants, denoted by $\small{\rho(H;\;a)}$, of a Hamiltonian function H as the mini-max value of the action functional $\small{{\cal{A}}_H}$ over the Novikov Floer cycles in the Floer homology class dual to the quantum cohomology class a. The spectrality axiom of the invariant $\small{\rho(H;\;a)}$ states that the mini-max value is a critical value of the action functional $\small{{\cal{A}}_H}$. The main purpose of the present paper is to prove this axiom for nondegenerate Hamiltonian functions in irrational symplectic manifolds (M, $\small{\omega}$). We also prove that the spectral invariant function $\small{{\rho}_a}$ : $\small{H\;{\mapsto}\;\rho(H;\;a)}$ can be pushed down to a continuous function defined on the universal ($\small{{\acute{e}}tale}$) covering space $\small{\widetilde{HAM}}$(M, $\small{\omega}$) of the group Ham((M, $\small{\omega}$) of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms on general (M, $\small{\omega}$). For a certain generic homotopy, which we call a Cerf homotopy $\small{{\cal{H}}\;=\;\{H^s\}_{0{\leq}s{\leq}1}}$ of Hamiltonians, the function $\small{{\rho}_a\;{\circ}\;{\cal{H}}}$ : $\small{s\;{\mapsto}\;{\rho}(H^s;\;a)}$ is piecewise smooth away from a countable subset of [0, 1] for each non-zero quantum cohomology class a. The proof of this nondegenerate spectrality relies on several new ingredients in the chain level Floer theory, which have their own independent interest: a structure theorem on the Cerf bifurcation diagram of the critical values of the action functionals associated to a generic one-parameter family of Hamiltonian functions, a general structure theorem and the handle sliding lemma of Novikov Floer cycles over such a family and a family version of new transversality statements involving the Floer chain map, and many others. We call this chain level Floer theory as a whole the Floer mini-max theory.
Keywords
irrational symplectic manifolds;Hamiltonian functions;action functional;Cerf bifurcation diagram;sub-homotopies;tight Floer cycles;handle sliding lemma;spectral invariants;spectrality axiom;
Language
English
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