Uniqueness of Area Minimizing Surfaces for Extreme Curves

Let M be a compact, orientable, mean convex 3-manifold with boundary. We show that the set of all simple closed curves in the boundary of M which bound unique area minimizing disks in M is dense in the space of simple closed curves in the boundary of M which are nullhomotopic in M. We also show that the set of all simple closed curves in the boundary of M which bound unique absolutely area minimizing surfaces in M is dense in the space of simple closed curves in the boundary of M which are nullhomologous in M.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figure

Examples of planar tight contact structures with support norm one

We exhibit an infinite family of tight contact structures with the property that none of the supporting open books minimizes the genus and maximizes the Euler characteristic of the page simultaneously, answering a question of Baldwin and Etnyre in arXiv:0910.5021 .Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures. Final version. Minor corrections and clarification

Koszul duality patterns in Floer theory

We study symplectic invariants of the open symplectic manifolds $X_\Gamma$ obtained by plumbing cotangent bundles of 2-spheres according to a plumbing tree $\Gamma$. For any tree $\Gamma$, we calculate (DG-)algebra models of the Fukaya category $\mathcal{F}(X_\Gamma)$ of closed exact Lagrangians in $X_\Gamma$ and the wrapped Fukaya category $\mathcal{W}(X_\Gamma)$. When $\Gamma$ is a Dynkin tree of type $A_n$ or $D_n$ (and conjecturally also for $E_6,E_7,E_8$), we prove that these models for the Fukaya category $\mathcal{F}(X_\Gamma)$ and $\mathcal{W}(X_\Gamma)$ are related by (derived) Koszul duality. As an application, we give explicit computations of symplectic cohomology of $X_\Gamma$ for $\Gamma=A_n,D_n$, based on the Legendrian surgery formula of Bourgeois, Ekholm and Eliashberg.Comment: 72 pages, 20 figures/tables. Minor corrections and improvements. To appear in Geometry & Topolog

Homologous Non-isotopic Symplectic Tori in Homotopy Rational Elliptic Surfaces

Let E(1)_K denote the closed 4-manifold that is homotopy equivalent (hence homeomorphic) to the rational elliptic surface E(1) and is obtained by performing Fintushel-Stern knot surgery on E(1) using a knot K in S^3. We construct an infinite family of homologous non-isotopic symplectic tori representing a primitive homology class in E(1)_K when K is any nontrivial fibred knot in S^3. We also show how these tori can be non-isotopically embedded as homologous symplectic submanifolds in other symplectic 4-manifolds.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure

Homologous non-isotopic symplectic tori in a K3-surface

For each member of an infinite family of homology classes in the K3-surface E(2), we construct infinitely many non-isotopic symplectic tori representing this homology class. This family has an infinite subset of primitive classes. We also explain how these tori can be non-isotopically embedded as homologous symplectic submanifolds in many other symplectic 4-manifolds including the elliptic surfaces E(n) for n>2.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures; v2: extended the main theorem, gave a second construction of symplectic tori, added a figure, added/updated references, minor changes in figure