The eternal quotient dichotomy for symplectic cohomology

Let WW be a convex-at-infinity symplectic manifold. For each contact isotopy φt\varphi_t, let HF(φt)\mathrm{HF}(\varphi_t) denote its Floer cohomology, and let SHe(W)\mathrm{SH}^{e}(W) be the subspace of SH(W)\mathrm{SH}(W) generated by elements lying in the image of HF(φt)SH(W)\mathrm{HF}(\varphi_t)\to\mathrm{SH}(W) for every contact isotopy φt\varphi_t. The quotient SH(W)/SHe(W)\mathrm{SH}(W)/\mathrm{SH}^{e}(W) is either zero or infinite dimensional. This dichotomy extends the aspherical case, where the quotient vanishes if and only if SH(W)\mathrm{SH}(W) vanishes; the conjecture concerns the possible presence of holomorphic spheres and the resulting quantum corrections.

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Dylan Cant, Jakob Hedicke and Eric Kilgore, “Extensible positive loops and vanishing of symplectic cohomology”, arXiv:2311.18267 (2024).

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