Rational SFT, linearized Legendrian contact homology, and Lagrangian Floer cohomology
arXiv:0902.4317
Abstract
We relate the version of rational Symplectic Field Theory for exact Lagrangian cobordisms introduced in [5] with linearized Legendrian contact homology. More precisely, if is an exact Lagrangian submanifold of an exact symplectic manifold with convex end , where is a contact manifold and is a Legendrian submanifold, and if has empty concave end, then the linearized Legendrian contact cohomology of , linearized with respect to the augmentation induced by , equals the rational SFT of . Following ideas of P. Seidel, this equality in combination with a version of Lagrangian Floer cohomology of leads us to a conjectural exact sequence which in particular implies that if $X=\C^{n}$ then the linearized Legendrian contact cohomology of is isomorphic to the singular homology of . We outline a proof of the conjecture and show how to interpret the duality exact sequence for linearized contact homology of [6] in terms of the resulting isomorphism.
32 pages, 6 figures