Symplectic, Poisson, and contact geometry on scattering manifolds
arXiv:1603.02994 · doi:10.2140/pjm.2021.310.213
Abstract
We introduce scattering-symplectic manifolds, manifolds with a type of minimally degenerate Poisson structure that is not too restrictive so as to have a large class of examples, yet restrictive enough for standard Poisson invariants to be computable. This paper will demonstrate the potential of the scattering symplectic setting. In particular, we construct scattering-symplectic spheres and scattering symplectic gluings between strong convex symplectic fillings of a contact manifold. By giving an explicit computation of the Poisson cohomology of a scattering symplectic manifold, we also introduce a new method of computing Poisson cohomology.
Final version accepted for publication in the Pacific Journal of Mathematics (PJM)