This book 'COmes from a course I gave in Strasbourg in 1988-89. In the audience were in particular Julien Duval, Santiago Lopez de Medrano and Marcus Slupinski who helped me by their questions to understand many of the points I was supposed to be explaining. There were genuine s…
This monograph deals with the Riemannian geometry of both symplectic and contact manifolds, with particular emphasis on the latter. The text is carefully presented. Topics unfold systematically from Chapter 1, which examines the general theory of symplectic manifolds. Principal …
J-holomorphic curves revolutionized the study of symplectic geometry when Gromov first introduced them in 1985. Through quantum cohomology, these curves are now linked to many of the most exciting new ideas in mathematical physics. This book presents the first coherent and full …