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Yoel Groman

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arXiv2026

Symplectic Excision and Distance Rigidity

We consider various notions of completeness in symplectic topology and ask two related questions. Does a complete open symplectic manifold remain complete after excising a subset? Can two sets be made arbitrarily far apart by adjusting the almost complex structure within an appropriate class of complete almost complex structures? We find rigidity phenomena when the excised set is a symplectic hypersurface. These arise from certain open Gromov-Witten invariants. We contrast this with flexibility that often occurs when the excised set is coisotropic. We also briefly touch on the opposite question of obstructions to existence of a complete symplectic structure compatible with a given complex structure. For the notion of completeness we first consider the traditional notion of geometric boundedness. We then introduce a broader notion of normalized completeness, related to the notion of intermittent boundedness of [Geom. Topol. 27 (2023), 1273-1390, arXiv:1510.04265], which depends on $C^0$ properties and is a contractible condition. Finally, we speculate about the relation to a Fukaya-categorical notion of completeness.

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arXiv2025

Boundary Depth and Deformations of Symplectic Cohomology

We study the relation between two versions of symplectic cohomology associated to a Liouville domain $D$ embedded in a symplectic manifold $M$: the ambient version $SC^*_M(D)$ defined over the Novikov field and depending on the embedding, and the intrinsic version $SC^*_{\theta}(D)$ depending on the choice of a local Liouville form and defined over the ground field. We show that when $D$ has sufficiently small boundary depth, the ambient version can be viewed as a deformation of the intrinsic one. This is achieved by constructing a filtration whose associated graded reproduces the intrinsic theory, and developing quantitative tools to control the deformation. We apply our results to constructing local pieces of the SYZ mirror.

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arXiv2025

Almost toric fibrations on symplectic blow ups

Given a symplectic 4-manifold with an almost toric fibration and a symplectic ball embedding whose image under the moment map is contained in an affine convex set R, we produce a symplectomorphism between the almost toric blow-up and the symplectic blow-up which is the identity on the pre-image of the complement of R. Furthermore, under a compatibility condition of the ball embedding with the boundary divisor, we show that the symplectomorphism can be chosen to preserve the induced symplectic log canonical divisors.

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arXiv2025

Almost toric fibrations on K3 surfaces via degenerations

For K\"ahler K3 surfaces we consider Kulikov models of type III tamed by a symplectic form. Our main result shows that the generic smooth fiber admits an almost toric fibration over the intersection complex, which inherits a natural nodal integral affine structure from almost toric fibrations of the boundary divisors. We prove that a smooth anti-canonical hypersurface in a smooth toric Fano threefold, equipped with a toric K\"ahler form, admits a symplectic Kulikov model. Moreover, we demonstrate that the induced integral affine structure on the intersection complex is integral affine isomorphic (up to nodal slides) nodal integral affine structure considered by Gross and Siebert on the boundary of the moment polytope.

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arXiv2023

The local Floer cohomology of indicator functions

For a compact set $K$ with contact type boundary in a symplectic manifold $M$ we construct a spectral sequence from the local Floer homology of the Reeb orbits, as studied by \cite{Mclean2012}, to the relative symplectic cohomology of $K$ in $M$ over the Novikov ring. The spectral sequence is functorial with respect to inclusions which are not required to be exact. This functoriality is key to the closed string reconstruction problem near the singularity of an SYZ fibration. We illustrate this in the case of dimension $2n=4$ for symplectic cluster manifolds. In higher dimension, an additional ingredient, the locality spectral sequence, is required, and is the subject of a forthcoming work in progress.

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arXiv2023

Locality of relative symplectic cohomology for complete embeddings

A complete embedding is a symplectic embedding $ι:Y\to M$ of a geometrically bounded symplectic manifold $Y$ into another geometrically bounded symplectic manifold $M$ of the same dimension. When $Y$ satisfies an additional finiteness hypothesis, we prove that the truncated relative symplectic cohomology of a compact subset $K$ inside $Y$ is naturally isomorphic to that of its image $ι(K)$ inside $M$. Under the assumption that the torsion exponents of $K$ are bounded we deduce the same result for relative symplectic cohomology. We introduce a technique for constructing complete embeddings using what we refer to as integrable anti-surgery. We apply these to study symplectic topology and mirror symmetry of symplectic cluster manifolds and other examples of symplectic manifolds with singular Lagrangian torus fibrations satisfying certain completeness conditions.

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arXiv2022

Closed string mirrors of symplectic cluster manifolds

For the base $B$ of a Maslov $0$ Lagrangian torus fibration with singularities consider the sheaf assigning to each $P\subset B$ the relative symplectic cohomology in degree $0$ of its pre-image. We compute this sheaf for nodal Lagrangian torus fibrations on four dimensional symplectic cluster manifolds. We show that it is the pushforward of the structure sheaf of a certain rigid analytic space under a non-archimedean torus fibration. The rigid analytic space is constructed in a canonical way from the relative SH sheaf and is referred as the \emph{closed string mirror}. The construction relies on computing relative SH for local models by applying general axiomatic properties rather than ad hoc analysis of holomorphic curves. These axiomatic properties include previously established ones such as the Mayer-Vietoris property and locality for complete embeddings; and new ones such as the Hartogs property and the holomorphic volume form preservation property of wall crossing in relative $SH$. We indicate some higher dimensional settings where the same techniques apply.

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arXiv2022

Framed $E_2$ structures in Floer theory

We resolve the long-standing problem of constructing the action of the operad of framed (stable) genus-$0$ curves on Hamiltonian Floer theory; this operad is equivalent to the framed $E_2$ operad. We formulate the construction in the following general context: we associate to each compact subset of a closed symplectic manifold a new chain-level model for symplectic cohomology with support, which we show carries an action of a model for the chains on the moduli space of framed genus $0$ curves. This construction turns out to be strictly functorial with respect to inclusions of subsets, and the action of the symplectomorphism group. In the general context, we appeal to virtual fundamental chain methods to construct the operations over fields of characteristic $0$, and we give a separate account, over arbitrary rings, in the special settings where Floer's classical transversality approach can be applied. We perform all constructions over the Novikov ring, so that the algebraic structures we produce are compatible with the quantitative information that is contained in Floer theory. Over fields of characteristic $0$, our construction can be combined with results in the theory of operads to produce explicit operations encoding the structure of a homotopy $BV$ algebra. In an appendix, we explain how to extend the results of the paper from the class of closed symplectic manifolds to geometrically bounded ones.

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arXiv2022

The wrapped Fukaya category for semi-toric SYZ fibrations

We introduce the wrapped Donaldson-Fukaya category of a (generalized) semi-toric SYZ fibration with Lagrangian section satisfying a tameness condition at infinity. Examples include the Gross fibration on the complement of an anti-canonical divisor in a toric Calabi-Yau 3-fold. We compute the wrapped Floer cohomology of a Lagrangian section and find that it is the algebra of functions on the Hori-Vafa mirror. The latter result is the key step in proving homological mirror symmetry for this case. The techniques developed here allow the construction in general of the wrapped Fukaya category on an open Calabi-Yau manifold carrying an SYZ fibration with nice behavior at infinity. We discuss the relation of this to the algebraic vs analytic aspects of mirror symmetry.

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arXiv2022

The symplectic cohomology of magnetic cotangent bundles

We construct a family version of symplectic Floer cohomology for magnetic cotangent bundles, without any restrictions on the magnetic form, using the dissipative method for compactness introduced in \cite{Groman2015}. As an application, we deduce that if $N$ is a closed manifold and $ σ$ is a magnetic form that is not weakly exact, then the $ π_1$-sensitive Hofer-Zehnder capacity of any compact set in the magnetic cotangent bundle determined by $ σ$ is finite.

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arXiv2021

Floer theory and reduced cohomology on open manifolds

We construct Hamiltonian Floer complexes associated to continuous, and even lower semi-continuous, time dependent exhaustion functions on geometrically bounded symplectic manifolds. We further construct functorial continuation maps associated to monotone homotopies between them, and operations which give rise to a product and unit. The work rests on novel techniques for energy confinement of Floer solutions as well as on methods of Non-Archimedean analysis. The definition for general Hamiltonians utilizes the notion of reduced cohomology familiar from Riemannian geometry, and the continuity properties of Floer cohomology. This gives rise in particular to localized Floer theory. We discuss various functorial properties as well as some applications to existence of periodic orbits and to displaceability.

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arXiv2014

J-holomorphic curves with boundary in bounded geometry

The fundamental properties of $J$-holomorphic maps depend on two inequalities: The gradient inequality gives a pointwise bound on the differential of a $J$-holomorphic map in terms of its energy. The cylinder inequality stipulates and quantifies the exponential decay of energy along cylinders of small total energy. We show these inequalities hold uniformly if the geometry of the target symplectic manifold and Lagrangian boundary condition is appropriately bounded.

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arXiv2014

A reverse isoperimetric inequality for J-holomorphic curves

We prove that the length of the boundary of a $J$-holomorphic curve with Lagrangian boundary conditions is dominated by a constant times its area. The constant depends on the symplectic form, the almost complex structure, the Lagrangian boundary conditions and the genus. A similar result holds for the length of the real part of a real $J$-holomorphic curve. The infimum over $J$ of the constant properly normalized gives an invariant of Lagrangian submanifolds. We calculate this invariant to be $2π$ for the Lagrangian submanifold $\mathbb R P^n \subset \mathbb C P^n.$ We apply our result to prove compactness of moduli of $J$-holomorphic maps to non-compact target spaces that are asymptotically exact. In a different direction, our result implies the adic convergence of the superpotential.

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arXiv2013

A thick-thin decomposition of $J$-holomorphic curves

We show the existence of a thick thin decomposition of the domain of a pseudo holomorphic curve with boundary. The geometry of the thick part is bounded uniformly in the energy. Furthermore, in the thick part, there is a uniform bound on the differential which is exponential in the energy. The thin part consists of annuli of small energy the number of which is at most linear in the energy and genus. The decomposition can be seen as a quantitative version of Gromov compactness which applies before passing to the limit.

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