• DOI:10.1007/978-3-0346-0425-3_4
Corpus ID: 6725644

Introduction to Symplectic Field Theory

@inproceedings{Eliashberg2000IntroductionTS,
  title={Introduction to Symplectic Field Theory},
  author={Yakov M. Eliashberg and Alexander Givental and Helmut O. Hofer},
  year={2000}
}

Yakov M. Eliashberg, Alexander Givental, Helmut O. Hofer

Published 2000

Mathematics, Physics

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We sketch in this article a new theory, which we call Symplectic Field Theory or SFT, which provides an approach to Gromov-Witten invariants of symplectic manifolds and their Lagrangian submanifolds in the spirit of topological field theory, and at the same time serves as a rich source of new invariants of contact manifolds and their Legendrian submanifolds. Moreover, we hope that the applications of SFT go far beyond this framework.1