Recent advances in symplectic flexibility. (English) Zbl 1310.53001

Eliashberg, Yakov

Bull. Am. Math. Soc., New Ser. 52, No. 1, 1-26 (2015).

Summary: Flexible and rigid methods coexisted in symplectic topology from its inception. While the rigid methods dominated the development of the subject during the last three decades, the balance has somewhat shifted to the flexible side in the last three years. In the talk we survey the recent advances in symplectic flexibility in the work of S. Borman, K. Cieliebak, T. Ekholm, E. Murphy, I. Smith, and the author.

MSC:

53-02	Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry
53D10	Contact manifolds (general theory)
53D05	Symplectic manifolds (general theory)
53D12	Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index

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