Kai Cieliebak and Yakov Eliashberg: “From Stein to Weinstein and Back. Symplectic Geometry of Affine Complex Manifolds”
Kai Cieliebak and Yakov Eliashberg: “From Stein to Weinstein and Back. Symplectic Geometry of Affine Complex Manifolds”
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Kai Cieliebak 和 Yakov Eliashberg:“从斯坦因到温斯坦再到仿射复流形的辛几何”。
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10.1365/s13291-013-0070-6
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2013
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F. Schlenk
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F. Schlenk
Complex geometry is an old and rich field with its origin in the study of complex functions (which in the nineteenth century were considered as much more natural than real functions, for instance because complex polynomials always decompose into linear factors). Stein manifolds are affine complex manifolds. Classically, such manifolds are studied up to biholomorphism. This book is not concerned with this fine structure of Stein manifolds, but with their topological structure. The approach is through symplectic geometry. Symplectic geometry is a much younger field, with its roots in classical mechanics and Hamiltonian systems, where the phase spaces carry a canonical symplectic structure. Since Gromov’s introduction of J -holomorphic methods and Floer’s creation of his homology, symplectic geometry is linked to many other fields (complex analysis, algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, low-dimensional topology, etc.) with cross-fertilization in both directions. This book demonstrates that symplectic geometry is also the structure that governs the topology of Stein manifolds. It is about the symplectic geometry of Stein manifolds and its implications for the complex geometry of Stein manifolds. In the sequel, I first explain the main notions (Stein and Weinstein manifolds), then describe the main results proven in this book, and finally say something about the style of exposition and how this book came to life.