Speaker: 

David Clausen

Institution: 

UC Irvine

Time: 

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 - 4:00pm

Location: 

ISEB 1200

On symplectic manifolds, there are intrinsincally symplectic cohomologies of differential forms that are analogous to the Dolbeault cohomology on complex manifolds. These cohomologies are isomorphic to the de Rham cohomologies on odd-dimensional sphere bundles over the symplectic manifold. In this talk, I will describe how we can use this sphere bundle perspective to define a novel Morse-type theory on symplectic manifolds associated with the symplectic cohomologies. This is joint work with Xiang Tang and Li-Sheng Tseng.