The topology of the space of symplectic balls in rational 4-manifolds
The topology of the space of symplectic balls in rational 4-manifolds
We study in this paper the rational homotopy type of the space of symplectic embeddings of the standard ball $B^4(c) \subset \R^4$ into 4-dimensional rational symplectic manifolds. We compute the rational homotopy groups of that space when the 4-manifold has the form $M_{\lambda}= (S^2 \times S^2, \mu \omega_0 \oplus \omega_0)$ …