Contact and symplectic geometry / edited by C.B. Thomas.

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