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A symplectic form is called hyperbolic if its pull-back to the universal cover is a differential of a bounded one-form. The present paper is concerned with the properties and constructions of manifolds admitting hyperbolic symplectic forms.
A long-standing conjecture in Hamiltonian Dynamics states that the Reeb flow of any convex hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ carries an elliptic closed orbit. Two important contributions toward its proof were given by Ekeland in 1986 and Dell'Antonio-D'Onofrio-Ekeland in 1995 proving this for convex hypersurfa...
Given a $G$-toric, folded-symplectic manifold with co-orientable folding hypersurface, we show that its orbit space is naturally a manifold with corners $W$ equipped with a smooth map $\psi: W \to \frak{g}^*$, where $\frak{g}^*$ is the dual of the Lie algebra of the torus, $G$. The map $\psi$ has fold singularities at...
In this article, let $\Sigma\subset\R^{2n}$ be a compact convex hypersurface which is $(r, R)$-pinched with $\frac{R}{r}<\sqrt{3/2}$. Then $\Sg$ carries at least two strictly elliptic closed characteristics; moreover, $\Sg$ carries at least $2[\frac{n+2}{4}]$ non-hyperbolic closed characteristics.
For a complex algebraic torus $\mathbb{T}$, we study $\mathbb{T}$-invariant Poisson deformations of $\mathbb{T}$-log-symplectic log-canonical Poisson structures on $\mathbb{C}^n$. We show that, under mild assumptions, every $\mathbb{T}$-invariant first-order deformation with no $(\mathbb{C}^\times)^n$-invariant compon...
This short and fairly informal note is an attempt to explain how methods of homological algebra may be brought to bear on problems in symplectic geometry. We do this by looking at a familiar sample question, which is that of the topology of Lagrangian submanifolds in the cotangent bundle of the sphere.
Let $(M, \omega)$ be a connected, compact symplectic manifold equipped with a Hamiltonian $G$ action, where $G$ is a connected compact Lie group. Let $\phi$ be the moment map.
The degree zero part of the quantum cohomology algebra of a smooth Fano toric symplectic manifold is determined by the superpotential function, W, of its moment polytope. In particular, this algebra is semisimple, i.e. splits as a product of fields, if and only if all the critical points of W are non-degenerate.
We prove that every closed Bohr-Sommerfeld Lagrangian submanifold $Q$ of a symplectic/Kähler manifold $X$ can be realised as a Morse-Bott minimum for some 'convex' exhausting function defined in the complement of a symplectic/complex hyperplane section $Y$. In the Kähler case, 'convex' means strictly p...
We define relative versions of the classical invariants of Legendrian and transverse knots in contact 3-manifolds for knots that are homologous to a fixed reference knot. We show these invariants are well-defined and give some basic properties.
We give a `Fukaya category commutes with reduction' theorem for the Hamiltonian torus action on a multiplicative hypertoric variety.
Suppose that an algebraic torus $G$ acts algebraically on a projective manifold $X$ with generically trivial stabilizers. Then the Zariski closure of the set of pairs $\{(x,y)\in X\times X\mid y=gx \text{for some}g\in G\}$ defines a nonzero equivariant cohomology class $[\Delta_G]\in H^*_{G\times G}(X\times X)$.
Given a closed symplectic manifold, we construct invariants which count (a) closed rational pseudoholomorphic curves with prescribed cusp singularities and
We construct a Lagrangian in the cotangent bundle of a 3-torus whose projection to the fiber is a neighborhood of a tropical curve with a single 4-valent vertex. This Lagrangian has an isolated conical singular point, and its smooth locus is diffeomorphic to the minimally-twisted five component chain link complement, ...
We show that there is an hierarchy of intersection rigidity properties of sets in a closed symplectic manifold: some sets cannot be displaced by symplectomorphisms from more sets than the others. We also find new examples of rigidity of intersections involving, in particular, specific fibers of moment maps of Hamilton...
Recently, extending work by Karshon, Kessler and Pinsonnault, Borisov and McDuff showed that a given symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ has a finite number of distinct toric structures. Moreover, McDuff also showed a product of two projective spaces $\bC P^r\times \bC P^s$ with any given symplectic form has a unique tor...
We define a new variant of Rabinowitz Floer homology that is particularly well suited to studying the growth rate of leaf-wise intersections. We prove that for closed manifolds $M$ whose loop space is "complicated", if $\Sigma$ is a non-degenerate fibrewise starshaped hypersurface in $T^*M$ and $\phi$ is a gen...
We define a natural class of star products: those which are given by a series of bidifferential operators which at order $k$ in the deformation parameter have at most $k$ derivatives in each argument. We show that any such star product on a symplectic manifold defines a unique symplectic connection.
We lay down an elementary yet fundamental lemma concerning a finite algebraicness property of a smooth map from an Azumaya/matrix manifold with a fundamental module to a smooth manifold. This gives us a starting point to build a synthetic (synonymously, $C^{\infty}$-algebraic) symplectic geometry and calibrated geomet...
This paper is a rigorous study of the dual pair structure of the ideal fluid and the dual pair structure for the $n$-dimensional Camassa-Holm (EPDiff) equation, including the proofs of the necessary transitivity results. In the case of the ideal fluid, we show that a careful definition of the momentum maps leads natur...
The classical minimum principle is foundational in convex and complex analysis and plays an important role in the study of the real and complex Monge-Ampere equations. This note establishes a minimum principle in Lagrangian geometry.
For a complex Lie group $G$ with a real form $G_0\subset G$, we prove that any Hamiltionian automorphism $\phi$ of a coadjoint orbit $\mathcal O_0$ of $G_0$ whose connected components are simply connected, may be approximated by holomorphic $\mathcal O_0$-invariant symplectic automorphism of the corresponding coadjoint...
Inspired by the work of G. Lu on pseudo symplectic capacities we obtain several results on the Gromov width and the Hofer--Zehnder capacity of Hermitian symmetric spaces of compact type. Our results and proofs extend those obtained by Lu for complex Grassmannians to Hermitian symmetric spaces of compact type. We also c...
In this note, we obtain new obstructions to symplectic embeddings of a product of disks (a polydisk) into a 4-dimensional ball. The polydisk P(r,s) is the product of the disk of area r with the disk of area s.
We show that for each k > 3 there are infinitely many finite type Stein manifolds diffeomorphic to Euclidean space R^{2k} which are pairwise distinct as symplectic manifolds.
In this paper, we prove the existence of at least two distinct closed geodesics on every compact simply connected irreversible or reversible Finsler (including Riemannian) manifold of dimension not less than 2.
For a closed oriented 3-manifold Y, we define an absolute grading on the Heegaard Floer homology groups of Y by homotopy classes of oriented 2-plane fields. We show that this absolute grading refines the relative one and that it is compatible with the maps induced by cobordisms.
Inspired by J. Novak's works on the asymptotic behavior of the BGW and the HCIZ matrix integrals \cite{[N0]} and by the algebraic and geometric properties of the Hurwitz numbers \cite{[IP]}, \cite{[LZZ]}, \cite{[LR]}, \cite{[OP]}, \cite{[Z1]}, and by the symplectic surgery theory of the relative GW-invariants \cite...
In this note, we prove that two constructions of exotic monotone Lagrangian tori, namely the one by Chekanov and Schlenk and the one obtained by the circle bundle construction of Biran are Hamiltonian isotopic in $\mathbb{C}P^2$ and $S^2 \times S^2$.
We classify positive, tight contact structures on closed Seifert fibered 3-manifolds with base S^2, three singular fibers and e_0\geq 0.
We study the moduli space of frozen planet orbits in the Helium atom for an interpolation between instantaneous and mean interactions and show that this moduli space is compact.
For a closed symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$, a compatible almost complex structure $J$, a 1-periodic time dependent symplectic vector field $Z$ and a homotopy class of closed curves $\gamma$ we define a Floer complex based on 1-periodic trajectories of $Z$ in the homotopy class $\gamma$. We suppose that the closed 1...
These notes are based on a course that took place at the Université de Nantes in June 2011 during the "Trimester on Contact and Symplectic Topology". We will explain how holomorphic curves can be used to study symplectic fillings of a given contact manifold.
We give a sharp lower bound for the number of geometrically distinct contractible periodic orbits of dynamically convex Reeb flows on prequantizations of symplectic manifolds that are not aspherical. Several consequences of this result are obtained, like a new proof that every bumpy Finsler metric on $S^n$ carries at ...
Computing embedded contact homology (ECH) and related invariants of certain toric 3-manifolds (in the sense of Lerman) has led to interesting new results in the study of symplectic embeddings. Here, we give a combinatorial formulation of ECH chain complexes for general toric contact 3-manifolds.
We generalize and refine the hyperkähler Arnold conjecture, which was originally established, in the non-degenerate case, for three-dimensional time by Hohloch, Noetzel and Salamon by means of hyperkähler Floer theory. In particular, we prove the conjecture in the case where the time manifold is a multidimensional tor...
We prove the Arnold-Givental conjecture for a class of Lagrangian submanifolds in Marsden-Weinstein quotients which are fixpoint sets of some antisymplectic involution. For these Lagrangians the Floer homology cannot in general be defined by standard means due to the bubbling phenomenon.
For a proper Hamiltonian action of a Lie group $G$ on a Kähler manifold $(X,\omega)$ with momentum map $\mu$ we show that the symplectic reduction $\mu^{-1}(0)/G$ is a normal complex space. Every point in $\mu^{-1}(0)$ has a $G$-stable open neighborhood on which $\omega$ and $\mu$ are given by a $G$-invariant Kähler p...
We propose a general theory of the Open Gromov-Witten invariant on Calabi-Yau three-folds. In this paper we construct the Open Gromov-Witten potential.
Motivated by recent works on Hamiltonian circle actions satisfying certain minimal conditions, in this paper, we consider Hamiltonian circle actions satisfying an almost minimal condition. More precisely, we consider a compact symplectic manifold $(M, \omega)$ admitting a Hamiltonian circle action with fixed point set...
Two natural symplectic constructions, the Lagrangian suspension and Seidel's quantum representation of the fundamental group of the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms, Ham(M), with (M,\omega) a monotone symplectic manifold, admit categorifications as actions of the fundamental groupoid \Pi(Ham(M)) on a cobordism ...
We resolve the long-standing problem of constructing the action of the operad of framed (stable) genus-$0$ curves on Hamiltonian Floer theory; this operad is equivalent to the framed $E_2$ operad. We formulate the construction in the following general context: we associate to each compact subset of a closed symplectic...
We compute, with Symplectic Field Theory techniques, the Gromov-Witten theory of the complex projective line with orbifold points. A natural subclass of these orbifolds, the ones with polynomial quantum cohomology, gives rise to a family of (polynomial) Frobenius manifolds and integrable systems of Hamiltonian PDEs, w...
The purpose of this paper is to study covariant Poisson structures on the complex Grassmannian obtained as quotients by coisotropic subgroups of the standard Poisson--Lie SU(n). Properties of Poisson quotients allow to describe Poisson embeddings generalizing those obtained in <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/math.SG/98...
Let $M$ be a closed symplectic manifold and $L \subset M$ a Lagrangian submanifold. Denote by $[L]$ the homology class induced by $L$ viewed as a class in the quantum homology of $M$.
We show how to reduce the problem of symplectically embedding one 4-dimensional rational ellipsoid into another to a problem of embedding disjoint unions of balls into appropriate blow ups of \C P^2. For example, the problem of embedding the ellipsoid E(1,k) into a ball B is equivalent to that of embedding k disjoint ...
Consider a Hamiltonian action of a compact Lie group K on a compact symplectic manifold. We find descriptions of the kernel of the Kirwan map corresponding to a regular value of the moment map $\kappa_K$.
We calculate the self-Floer cohomology with Z/2 coefficients of some immersed Lagrangian spheres in the affine symplectic submanifolds of C^3 that are smoothings of A_N surfaces. The immersed spheres are exact and graded.
We characterize the closed, oriented, Seifert fibered 3-manifolds which are oriented boundaries of Stein manifolds. We also show that for this class of 3-manifolds the existence of Stein fillings is equivalent to the existence of symplectic fillings.
The harmonic cohomology of a Donaldson symplectic submanifold and of an Auroux symplectic submanifold are compared with that of its ambient space. We also study symplectic manifolds satisfying a weakly Lefschetz property, that is, the $s$-Lefschetz propery.
Kuranishi structures were introduced to symplectic topology by Fukaya and Ono and recently refined by Joyce, in order to extract homological data from compactified moduli spaces of holomorphic maps in cases where geometric regularization approaches such as perturbations of the almost complex structure do not yield a sm...
In this paper we construct analogues of Ekeland-Hofer and Hofer-Zehnder symplectic capacities based on a class of Hamiltonian boundary value problems motivated by Clarke&#39;s and Ekeland&#39;s work, and study generalizations of some important results about the original two capacities (for example, the famous Weinstein...
This set of notes corresponds to a mini-course given in September 2018 in Bedlewo; it does not contain any new result; it complements -- with intersection -- the introduction to formal deformation quantization and group actions, corresponding to a course given in Villa de Leyva in July 2015. After an introduction to t...
This is an expository note on Fedosov&#39;s construction of deformation quantization. Given a symplectic manifold and a connection on it, we show how to calculate the star-product step by step.
We prove that a bounded domain $\Omega$ in $\R^n$ with smooth boundary has a periodic billiard trajectory with at most $n+1$ bounce times and of length less than $C_n r(\Omega)$, where $C_n$ is a positive constant which depends only on $n$, and $r(\Omega)$ is the supremum of radius of balls in $\Omega$. This result im...
The Poisson sigma model is a widely studied two-dimensional topological field theory. This note shows that boundary conditions for the Poisson sigma model are related to coisotropic submanifolds (a result announced in [<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/math.QA/0309180" data-arxiv-id="math.QA/0309180" class="link-https">m...
One defines the notion of universal deformation quantization: given any manifold $M$, any Poisson structure $¶$ on $M$ and any torsionfree linear connection $\nabla$ on $M$, a universal deformation quantization associates to this data a star product on $(M,¶)$ given by a series of bidifferential operators whose corresp...
Let the circle act symplectically on a compact, connected symplectic manifold $M$. If there are exactly three fixed points, $M$ is equivariantly symplectomorphic to $\mathbb{CP}^2$.
Almost toric manifolds form a class of singular Lagrangian fibered symplectic manifolds that is a natural generalization of toric manifolds. Notable examples include the K3 surface, the phase space of the spherical pendulum and rational balls useful for symplectic surgeries.
In this paper, we prove that the &#34;quantization commutes with reduction&#34; phenomenon of Guillemin-Sternberg applies in the context of the metaplectic correction.
Log-symplectic structures are Poisson structures $\pi$ on $X^{2n}$ for which $\bigwedge^n \pi$ vanishes transversally. By viewing them as symplectic forms in a Lie algebroid, the $b$-tangent bundle, we use symplectic techniques to obtain existence results for log-symplectic structures on total spaces of fibration-like...
We construct a stable infinity category with objects flow categories and morphisms flow bimodules; our construction has many flavors, related to a choice of bordism theory, and we discuss in particular framed bordism and the bordism theory of complex oriented derived orbifolds. In this setup, the construction of homot...
In this paper we explain how the cocycle of the momentum map of the action of the affine symplectic group on $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ gives rise to a coadjoint orbit of the odd real symplectic group with a modulus.
We give new proofs on Arnold Chord Conjecture and Weinstein Conjecture in M\times C which generalizes the previous works.
We prove a formula that expresses the Viterbo-Maslov index of a smooth strip in an oriented 2-manifold with boundary curves contained in 1-dimensional submanifolds in terms the degree function on the complement of the union of the two submanifolds.
The 2011 PhD thesis of Farris demonstrated that the ECH of a prequantization bundle over a Riemann surface is isomorphic as a Z/2Z-graded group to the exterior algebra of the homology of its base. We extend this result by computing the Z-grading on the chain complex, permitting a finer understanding of this isomorphis...
Given an open book decomposition of a contact three man-ifold (M, $\xi$) with pseudo-Anosov monodromy and fractional Dehn twist coefficient c = k n, we construct a Legendrian knot $\Lambda$ close to the stable foliation of a page, together with a small Legendrian pushoff $\Lambda$. When k $\ge$ 5, we apply the techniq...
In this short note, we construct an explicit embedding of the rescaling of the $p$-sum $K\oplus_p K^{\circ}$ of the centrally symmetric convex domain $K$ and its polar $K^{\circ}$ to the product $K \times K^{\circ}$. The rescaling constant is sharp in some cases.
Using the Oh-Schwarz spectral invariants and some arguments of Frauenfelder, Ginzburg, and Schlenk, we show that the \pi_1-sensitive Hofer-Zehnder capacity of any subset of a closed symplectic manifold is less than or equal to its displacement energy. This estimate is sharp, and implies some new extensions of the Non-...
We prove two main results: <br> (a) Suppose $L$ is a closed, embedded, exact special Lagrangian $m$-fold in ${\mathbb C}^m$ for $m\ge 3$ asymptotic at infinity to the union $\Pi_1\cup\Pi_2$ of two transverse special Lagrangian planes $\Pi_1,\Pi_2$ in ${\mathbb C}^m$.
In this paper we define the universal Maslov class of a Bohr - Sommerfeld lagrangian embedding to a simply connected pseudo - Einstein symplectic manifold. This class is an invariant of hamiltonian (isodrastic) deformations of a given Bohr - Sommerfeld lagrangian submanifold.
We construct an enhanced version of knot contact homology, and show that we can deduce from it the group ring of the knot group together with the peripheral subgroup. In particular, it completely determines a knot up to smooth isotopy.
If there exists a set of canonical classes on a compact Hamiltonian-$T$-spaces in the sense of Goldin and Tolman, we derive some formulas for certain equivariant structure constants in terms of other equivariant structure constants and the values of canonical classes restricted to some fixed points. These formulas can...
We give a dynamical characterisation of odd-dimensional balls within the class of all contact manifolds whose boundary is a standard even-dimensional sphere. The characterisation is in terms of the non-existence of short periodic Reeb orbits.
This paper introduces the notion of twisted toric manifolds which is a generalization of one of symplectic toric manifolds, and proves the weak Delzant type classification theorem for them. The computation methods for their fundamental groups, cohomology groups in general cases, and signatures in four-dimensional case...
Time-dependent Stark-Zeeman systems describe the motion of an electron attracted by a proton subject to a magnetic and a time-dependent electric field. For instance the study of the dynamics of a gateway around the moon which is subject to the joint attraction of the moon, the earth and the sun leads to time-dependent...
We study homological mirror symmetry for Hirzebruch surface $\mathbb{F}_k$ as a complex manifold by using the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow construction of mirror pair and Morse homotopy. For the toric Fano surfaces, Futaki-Kajiura and the author proved homological mirror symmetry by using Morse homotopy in <a href="https://a...
We describe a connection between symplectic Floer homology for symplectomorphisms of surface and Nielsen fixed point theory. A new zeta functions and asymptotic invariant of symplectic origin are defined.
In this paper we construct the Floer homology for an action functional which was introduced by Rabinowitz and prove a vanishing theorem. As an application, we show that there are no displaceable exact contact embeddings of the unit cotangent bundle of a sphere of dimension greater than three into a convex exact symple...
Let $M$ be a manifold with an exact symplectic form $\omega$. Then there is a nowhere vanishing primitive $\beta$ for $\omega$, i.e. $\omega=\mathrm{d}\beta$.
We study the geography of bilinearized Legendrian contact homology for closed, connected Legendrian submanifolds with vanishing Maslov class in 1-jet spaces. We show that this invariant detects whether the two augmentations used to define it are DGA homotopic or not.
In this paper, via h-principle we prove that there exist contractible positive loops of Legendrian embeddings based at any loose Legendrian submanifold. As an application, we define a new partial order on $\widetilde{Cont}_0(M,\xi)$ and prove that overtwisted contact manifolds are weakly non-orderable.
By a result of Eliashberg, every symplectic filling of a three-dimensional contact connected sum is obtained by performing a boundary connected sum on another symplectic filling. We prove a partial generalization of this result for subcritical contact surgeries in higher dimensions: given any contact manifold that ari...
We describe an iterative construction of Lagrangian tori in the complex Grassmannian $\operatorname{Gr}(k,n)$, based on the cluster algebra structure of the coordinate ring of a mirror Landau-Ginzburg model proposed by Marsh-Rietsch. Each torus comes with a Laurent polynomial, and local systems controlled by the $k$-v...
In this paper we introduce and study a distance, Gromov-Hausdorff distance, which measures how two filtered A $A_{\infty}$ categories are far away each other. In symplectic geometry the author associated a filtered$A_{\infty}$ category, Fukaya category, to a finite set of Lagrangian submanifolds.
Let $S$ be a closed orientable spin manifold. Let $K \subset S$ be a submanifold and denote its complement by $M_K$.
We compute the sheaf of automorphisms of a multiplicity free Hamiltonian manifold over its momentum polytope and show that its higher cohomology groups vanish. Together with a theorem of Losev, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612561" data-arxiv-id="math/0612561" class="link-https">arXiv:math/0612561</a>, this imp...
We prove that the algebra of chains on the based loop space recovers the derived (wrapped) Fukaya category of the cotangent bundle of a closed smooth orientable manifold. The main new idea is the proof that a cotangent fibre generates the Fukaya category using a version of the map from symplectic cohomology to the hom...
Let $M$ be a closed manifold and consider the Hamiltonian flow associated to an autonomous Tonelli Hamiltonian $H:T^*M\rightarrow \mathbb R$ and a twisted symplectic form. In this paper we study the existence of contractible periodic orbits for such a flow.
We explain how to calculate the Fukaya category of the Milnor fiber of a Berglund-Hübsch invertible polynomial, mostly proving a conjecture of Yankı Lekili and Kazushi Ueda on homological mirror symmetry. As usual, we begin by calculating the &#34;very affine&#34; Fukaya category; afterwards, we deform it, generalizin...
We consider a $3$-manifold $M$ equipped with nondegenerate contact form $\lambda$ and compatible almost complex structure $J$. We show that if the data $(M, \lambda, J)$ admits a stable finite energy foliation, then for a generic choice of distinct points $p$, $q\in M$, the manifold $M&#39;$ formed by taking the conne...
We develop notions of twisted spinor bundle and twisted pre-quantum bundle on quasi-Hamiltonian G-spaces. The main result of this paper is that we construct a Dirac operator with index given by positive energy representation of loop group.
We prove that any symplectic Fano $6$-manifold $M$ with a Hamiltonian $S^1$-action is simply connected and satisfies $c_1 c_2(M)=24$. This is done by showing that the fixed submanifold $M_{\min}\subseteq M$ on which the Hamiltonian attains its minimum is diffeomorphic to either a del Pezzo surface, a $2$-sphere or a p...
We give a generalization of toric symplectic geometry to Poisson manifolds which are symplectic away from a collection of hypersurfaces forming a normal crossing configuration. We introduce the tropical momentum map, which takes values in a generalization of affine space called a log affine manifold.
We study here some aspects of the topology of the space of smooth, stable, genus 0 curves in a Riemannian manifold $X$, i.e. the Kontsevich stable curves, which are not necessarily holomorphic. We use the Hofer-Wysocki-Zehnder polyfold structure on this space and some natural characteristic classes, to show that for $...
In this work, we define the quasi-Poisson Lie quasigroups, dual objects to the quasi-poisson Lie groups and we establish the correspondance between the local quasi-Poisson Lie quasigroups and quasi-Lie bialgebras (up to isomorphism)
In this note, we verify that the complex Kodaira dimension $\kappa^h$ equals the symplectic Kodaira dimension $\kappa^s$ for smooth 4-manifolds with complex and symplectic structures. We also calculate the Kodaira dimension for many Lefschetz fibrations.
We look at how one can construct from the data of a dimer model a Lagrangian submanifold in $(\mathbb{C}^*)^n$ whose valuation projection approximates a tropical hypersurface. Each face of the dimer corresponds to a Lagrangian disk with boundary on our tropical Lagrangian submanifold, forming a Lagrangian mutation see...
We show that if K: P \to R is an autonomous Hamiltonian on a symplectic manifold (P,\Omega) which attains 0 as a Morse-Bott nondegenerate minimum along a symplectic submanifold M, and if c_1(TP)|_M vanishes in real cohomology, then the Hamiltonian flow of K has contractible periodic orbits with bounded period on all su...
We prove that a real Lagrangian submanifold in a closed symplectic manifold is unique up to cobordism. We then discuss the classification of real Lagrangians in $\mathbb{C} P^2$ and $S^2\times S^2$.