TY - BOOK AU - Thomas,C.B. TI - Contact and symplectic geometry T2 - Publications Of The Newton Institute SN - 0521570867 AV - QA646 .C66 1996 CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University, 1996. KW - Symplectic geometry N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Introduction Pt. A Geometric Methods; J-curves and the classification of rational and ruled symplectic 4-manifolds; / Francois Lalonde, Dusa McDuff; Periodic Hamiltonian flows on four dimensional manifolds; / Yael Karshon; 3-Dimensional Contact Geometry; / C. B. Thomas; Topology and Analysis of Contact Circles; / Hansjorg Geiges, Jesus Gonzalo; Properties of pseudoholomorphic curves in symplectisation IV: Asymptotics with degeneracies; / H. Hofer, K. Wysocki, E. Zehnder; Pseudo-holomorphic curves and Bernoulli shifts; / Kai Cieliebak; On closed trajectories of a charge in a magnetic field. An application of symplectic geometry; / Viktor L. GinzburgPt. B Symplectic Invariants; Introduction to Symplectic Floer Homology; / Matthias Schwarz; Symplectic Floer-Donaldson Theory and Quantum Cohomology; / S. Piunikhin, D. Salamon, M. Schwarz; Relative Floer and quantum cohomology and the symplectic topology of Lagrangian submanifolds; / Yong-Geun Oh; Cup-length estimate for symplectic fixed points; / Le Hong Van, Kaoru Ono; Hofer's Symplectic Energy and Lagrangian Intersections; / Yu. V. Chekanov; On the existence of symplectic submanifolds; / C. B. Thomas ER -