Title: Symplectic Topology of Partitions of Unity
Program: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Connections to Low-Dimensional Topology
Speaker: Leonid Polterovich, University of Chicago
Date: Thursday, September 20, 2012
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Place:Seminar Room 313, Simons Center
Abstract: We discuss quantitative aspects of the following phenomenon: certain finite open covers of closed symplectic manifolds do not admit Poisson commuting partitions of unity. The discussion goes in the language of Poisson bracket invariants whose definition involves elementary calculus, but whose study requires methods of “hard” symplectic topology.
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