Vanishing cycles and mutation

2000/07/19 by Paul Seidel, Seidel, Paul · 1 citation
Mathematics · #Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics #Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals #Symplectic Geometry (math.SG) #math.AG #math.SG

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0007115

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Abstract

This is the writeup of a talk given at the European Congress of Mathematics, Barcelona. It considers Picard-Lefschetz theory from the Floer cohomology viewpoint.

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