Synopses & Reviews
This volume is based on lectures given at a workshop and conference on symplectic geometry at the University of Warwick in August 1990.
Synopsis
Based on lectures given at a workshop and conference on symplectic geometry at the University of Warwick in August 1990, the contributions to this volume reflect the richness of the subject and include expository papers as well as original research.
Table of Contents
A variational interpretation of Melnikov's function and exponitionally small separaratrix splitting S. Angenent; Global Darboux theorems and a linearization problem E. Ciriza; Complex cobordism, Ashtekar's equations and diffeomorphisms S. Donaldson; Instanton homology and symplectic fixed points S. Dostoglou & D. Salamon; An energy-capacity inequality for the symplectic holonomy of hypersurfaces flat at infinity Y. Eliashberg and H. Hofer; Examples of singular reduction E. Lerman, R. Montgomery and R. Sjamaar; Remarks on the uniqeness of symplectic blowing up D. McDuff; The 4-dimensional symplectic camel and related results D. McDuff and L. Traynor; Differential forms and connections adapted to a contact structure M. Rumin and P. Pansu; The Maslov class rigidity and non-existence of lagrangian embeddings L. Polterovich; Phase functions and path integrals J. Robbin and D. Salamon; Symplectic mappings which are stable at infinity E. Zehnder.