Non-linear Maslov index on lens spaces
Speaker:
Yael Karshon, University of Toronto
Date and Time:
Friday, July 20, 2018 - 9:00am to 9:50am
Location:
Earth Sciences Centre, Room 1050 (Reichman Family Lecture Hall)
Abstract:
Let? L?be a lens space with its standard contact structure.? We construct a "non-linear Maslov index", which associates an integer to any contact isotopy of? L?starting at the identity, and that has certain properties that allows us to use it to prove rigidity properties of? L?as a contact manifold.This is joint work with Gustavo Granja, Milena Pabiniak, and Sheila(Margherita) Sandon, and it follows earlier work of Givental and Theret that applied to real and complex projective spaces.