Holomorphic curves and global questions in contact geometry / Casim Abbas, Helmut Hofer.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Birkhäuser advanced texts.
Main Authors: Abbas, Casim (Author)
Hofer, Helmut, 1956- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Birkhäuser, [2019]
Series:Birkhäuser advanced texts.
Subjects:
Holomorphic functions.
Symplectic geometry.
Local Note:
MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection.
Physical Description:xii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • An introduction to contact geometry
  • Basic results
  • Surfaces in three dimensional contact manifolds
  • Finite energy planes and periodic orbits
  • Properties of pseudoholomorphic curves
  • Intersection theory for pseudoholomorphic disks
  • Local existence and global uniqueness results
  • Bubbling-off in families of pseudoholomorphic disks
  • Disk filling methods and applications.