Gravitational descendants in symplectic field theory

Topological recursion relations in the symplectic field theory of mapping tori and local symplectic field theory

Based on the localization result for descendants in rational SFT moduli spaces from our last joint paper, we prove topological recursion relations for the Hamiltonian in SFT of symplectic mapping tori and in local SFT. Combined with the dilaton equation in SFT, we use them to prove a reconstruction theorem for descendants from primaries. While it turns out that (in contrast to Gromov-Witten theory and non-equivariant cylindrical contact homology) the descendant Hamiltonian cannot be computed from the Hamiltonian without descendants alone, we get that the only additional piece of information ne…

Gromov-Witten invariants of target curves via Symplectic Field Theory

We compute the Gromov-Witten potential at all genera of target smooth Riemann surfaces using Symplectic Field Theory techniques and establish differential equations for the full descendant potential. This amounts to impose (and possibly solve) different kinds of Schroedinger equations related to some quantization of the dispersionless KdV hierarchy. In particular we find very explicit formulas for the Gromov-Witten invariants of low degree of P1 with descendants of the Kaehler class.

椭球超势与稳态派生类

Ellipsoidal superpotentials and stationary descendants

该研究计算任意维辛椭球的稳态引力派生类，推导带椭球端辛流形穿孔曲线计数的新递推公式，构建借仿射空间标准复结构显式计算的框架，并开启对作为椭球辛配边基本单元的无穷小辛配边的研究。

String, dilaton and divisor equation in Symplectic Field Theory

Infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems appear naturally in the rich algebraic structure of Symplectic Field Theory. Carefully defining a generalization of gravitational descendants and adding them to the picture, one can produce an infinite number of symmetries of such systems . As in Gromov-Witten theory, the study of the topological meaning of gravitational descendants yields new differential equations for the SFT Hamiltonian, where the key point is to understand the dependence of the algebraic constructions on choices of auxiliary data like contact form, cylindrical almost complex structu…

Nijenhuis operator in contact homology and descendant recursion in symplectic field theory

In this paper we investigate the algebraic structure related to a new type of correlator associated to the moduli spaces of $S^1$-parametrized curves in contact homology and rational symplectic field theory. Such correlators are the natural generalization of the non-equivariant linearized contact homology differential (after Bourgeois-Oancea) and give rise to an invariant Nijenhuis (or hereditary) operator (à la Magri-Fuchssteiner) in contact homology which recovers the descendant theory from the primaries. We also sketch how such structure generalizes to the full SFT Poisson homology algebra …

Gravitational Descendants and Linearized Contact Homology

In this paper we prove a recursion relation between the the one-point genus-0 gravitational descendants of a Stein domain $(M,\partial M)$. This relation is best described by the degree -2 map $D$ in the linearized contact homology of $\partial M$, arising from the Bourgeois--Oancea exact sequence between symplectic homology of $M$ and linearized contact homology of $\partial M$. All one-point genus-0 gravitational descendants can be reduce to the one-point Gromov--Witten invariants via iterates of $D$.