THE KUNNETH FORMULA IN FLOER HOMOLOGY FOR MANIFOLDS WITH RESTRICTED CONTACT TYPE BOUNDARY ALEXANDRU OANCEA Department of Mathematics, ETHZ, Ramistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich (CH). Email: oancea@ math.ethz.ch Abstract. We prove the Kunneth formula in Floer (co)homology for mani- folds with restricted contact type boundary. We use Viterbo's definition of Floer homology, involving the symplectic completion by adding a positive cone over the boundary. The Kunneth formula implies the vanishing of Floer (co)homology for subcritical Stein manifolds. Other applications include the Weinstein conjecture in certain product manifolds, obstructions to exact La- grangian embeddings, existence of holomorphic curves with Lagrangian bound- ary condition, as well as symplectic capacities. 1. Introduction The present paper is concerned with the Floer homology groups FH?(M) of a compact symplectic manifold (M, ?) with contact type boundary, as well as with their cohomological dual analogues FH?(M). The latter were defined by Viterbo in [V] and are invariants that take into account the topology of the underlying manifold and, through an algebraic limit process, all closed characteristics on ∂M . Their definition is closely related to the Symplectic homology groups of Floer, Hofer, Cieliebak and Wysocki [FH, CFH, FHW, CFHW, C1]. Throughout this paper we will assume that ? is exact, and in particular ??, pi2(M)? = 0.
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