Spectral Fukaya Categories for Liouville Manifolds

This thesis constructs stable homotopy types underlying symplectic Floer homology, realizing a program proposed by Cohen, Jones and Segal twenty-five years ago. We work in the setting of Liouville manifolds with a stable symplectic trivialization of their tangent bundles, where we prove that the moduli spaces of Floer trajectories are smooth and stably framed. We then develop a basic TQFT formalism, in the stable homotopy category, for producing operations on these Floer homotopy types from families of punctured Riemann surfaces. As a byproduct, we can generalize many familiar algebraic constructions in traditional Floer homology over the integers to Floer homotopy theory: among them symplectic cohomology, wrapped Floer cohomology, and the Donaldson-Fukaya category.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2021

Author dc:creator

• Large, Tim

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Seidel, Paul

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• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright MIT

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• http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139233

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/139233