Floer-Fukaya theory and topological elliptic objects
Abstract
Inspired by Segal-Stolz-Teichner project for geometric construction of elliptic (tmf) cohomology, and ideas of Floer theory and of Hopkins-Lurie on extended TFT's, we geometrically construct some Ring-valued representable cofunctors on the homotopy category of topological spaces. Using a classical computation in Gromov-Witten theory due to Seidel we show that for one version of these cofunctors π2 of the representing space is non trivial, provided a certain categorical extension of Kontsevich conjecture holds for the symplectic manifold CP n, for some some n ≥ 1. This gives further evidence for existence of generalized cohomology theories built from field theories living on a topological space.
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