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Cotangent bundles and Viterbo Functoriality

In the morning, we will go through one method of computing the symplectic cohomology of cotangent bundles. 

  1. Show that the unit cotangent bundle is a Liouville domain. Explain the correspondence between closed geodesics and Reeb orbits. State the isomorphism between symplectic cohomology and the homology of the free loop space (Theorem 3.5 in [Seidel]). Give the statement only with
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    $\mathbb{Z} / 2\mathbb{Z}$
     coefficients.
  2. Define the Morse homology of the free loop space following Section 2 of [Abbondandolo-Schwarz].
  3. Explain the Abbondandolo-Schwarz construction of an isomorphism between symplectic cohomology and the homology of the free loop space, following Section 3 of [Abbondandolo-Schwarz]. Make sure to draw the pictures that are associated to these maps (i.e. counting pseudo-holomorphic half-cylinders in the cotangent bundle followed by gradient flow lines in the base).

In the afternoon,

  1. Define the notion of a Liouville subdomain. Give examples coming from exact Lagrangian embeddings, and from Weinstein handle attachment.
  2. Explain the construction of Section 2 in [Viterbo] associating maps on symplectic cohomology to Liouville subdomains. Warning: what Viterbo denotes 
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    $FH^*$
     is the dual of the theory Seidel denotes 
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    $SH^*$ 
    . To keep this talk consistent with the others, you should dualise Viterbo's statements.