Compactness results in Symplectic Field Theory

@article{Bourgeois2003CompactnessRI,
  title={Compactness results in Symplectic Field Theory},
  author={Fr'ed'eric Bourgeois and Yasha Eliashberg and Helmut Hofer and Kris Wysocki and Eduard Zehnder},
  journal={Geometry \& Topology},
  year={2003},
  volume={7},
  pages={799-888}
}
This is one in a series of papers devoted to the foundations of Symplectic Field Theory sketched in (4). We prove compactness results for moduli spaces of holomorphic curves arising in Symplectic Field Theory. The theorems generalize Gromov's compactness theorem in (8) as well as compactness theorems in Floer homology theory, (6, 7), and in contact geometry, (9, 19). 
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