A Course on Holomorphic Discs

by Hansjörg Geiges and Kai Zehmisch

This textbook, based on a one-semester course taught several times by the authors, provides a self-contained, comprehensive yet concise introduction to the theory of pseudoholomorphic curves. Gromov's nonsqueezing theorem in symplectic topology is taken as a motivating example, and a complete proof using pseudoholomorphic discs is presented. A sketch of the proof is discussed in the first chapter, with succeeding chapters guiding the reader through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303136063X
• ISBN13: 9783031360633
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"