This dissertation explores the quantitative and qualitative properties of the cotangent bundles T ∗M of a closed smooth manifolds M , from the symplectic point of view. Quantitative aspects involve packing the open neighborhood W of the zero section with symplectic balls. We introduce a distance-like function ρW on the zero section M using the symplectic packing of two balls. In the case when W is the unit disc-cotangent bundle associated to the Riemannian metric g, we show how to recover the metric g from ρW . As an intermediate step, we construct a symplectic embedding from the ball B2n(2/√π) of capacity 4 to the product of Lagrangian unit discs Bn(1) × Bn(1). Such a construction implies the strong Viterbo conjecture for Bn(1) × Bn(1). We also give a bound on the relative Gromov width Gr(M, W) when M admits a non-contractible S1-action. The bound is given in terms of the symplectic action of the lift of non-contractible orbits of the S1-action. We also provide examples of when such a bound is sharp. This result is part of the joint work with Dylan Cant. The second part of this joint work is related to the qualitative aspects. We show the existence of periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems on T ∗M for a large class of Hamiltonians. Another qualitative aspect is proof of the Arnol’d chord conjecture for conormal Legendrians in the co-sphere bundle S∗M . This part of the dissertation is joint work with Dylan Cant and Egor Shelukhin. We show that for a given closed submanifold N ⊂ M there exists a non-constant Reeb chord in (S∗M, α) with endpoints on ΛN := ν∗N ∩ S∗M, for arbitrary contact form α on S∗M which induces standard contact structure.

This master’s thesis introduces a new way to sudy Morse functions on a compact manifold. More specifically, crossings between flows of pseudo-gradients associated to Morse functions allow one to define geometric realisations of morphisms between the Morse complexes. This new class of morphisms leads to the definition of a triangulated category. The main question is to determine if every object of this category admits an iterated cone decomposition. Such a decomposition would greatly simplify the study of the dynamic of a Morse function by interpreting it as many perfect Morse functions. A second topic concerns the global genericity condition to which this category is subject. We study a way, through deformation of Morse functions, to avoid such a constraint.

In this thesis, we shall study Floer theory for Lagrangian immersions. In the first chapter, we prove a decomposition theorem for pseudo-holomorphic disks with boundary on a given generic Lagrangian immersion. We apply this result to the computation of certain Floer complexes. We conclude with work in progress on the computation of the obstruction of the surgery of two transverse Lagrangian submanifolds. In the second chapter, we consider surfaces. We show that a cobordism group, whose relations are given by unobstructed immersed lagrangian cobordisms, is isomorphic to the Grothendieck group of the derived Fukaya category. We also compute the immersed Lagrangian cobordism group.

We introduce a new type of duality structure for A_∞-categories called a relative weak Calabi-Yau pairing which generalizes Kontsevich and Soibelman's notion of a weak (proper) Calabi-Yau structure. We prove the existence of a relative weak Calabi-Yau pairing on Biran and Cornea's Fukaya category of Lagrangian cobordisms Fuk_cob(C x M). Here M is a symplectic manifold which is closed or tame at infinity. This duality structure on Fuk_cob(C x M) extends the relative Poincaré duality satisfied by Floer complexes for pairs of Lagrangian cobordisms. Moreover, we show that the relative weak Calabi-Yau pairing on Fuk_cob(C x M) satisfies a compatibility condition with respect to the usual weak Calabi-Yau structure on the monotone Fukaya category of M. The construction of the relative weak Calabi-Yau pairing on Fuk_cob(C x M) is based on counts of curves in C x M satisfying an inhomogeneous nonlinear Cauchy-Riemann equation. In order to prove the existence of this duality structure and to verify its properties, we extend the methods of Biran and Cornea to establish regularity and compactness results for the relevant moduli spaces. We also consider the implications of the existence of the relative weak Calabi-Yau pairing on Fuk_cob(C x M) for the cone decomposition in the derived Fukaya category of M associated to a Lagrangian cobordism, and we present an example involving Lagrangian surgery.

In this thesis, we study aspects of Morse theory and the chain complexes that derive from it : the Morse complex, the Milnor complex and the Barraud-Cornea complex. Using different techniques from differential topology and Morse theory, which will be presented in the first chapters, we carefully build these complexes before proving their equivalence. This thesis synthesises and compares three points of view in Morse theory in a document accessible to beginning graduate students.

Let (ft,Xt)t∈J be a family of pairs, where J is an interval, ft is a smooth real-valued Morse function defined on a smooth compact manifold V , and Xt is a pseudo-gradient field associated to ft. The purpose of this master thesis is to study the bifurcations undergone by the associated Morse complexes. Two ways are used to reach this result : the direct study of the bifurcations and the continuation method. We prove that the two methods produce the same results from a functorial point of view.

In this dissertation we study the following question: do Lagrangian cobordisms preserve uniruling? In the two first chapters, the necessary pseudoholomorphic curves theory is quickly presented. We first study in detail the proof that the spaces of simple $ J $-holomorphic curves is a manifold of finite dimension. We then present the necessary results to produce the appropriate compactification of these spaces to get to the definition of Gromov-Witten invariants. In the third chapter then some results on the property of uniruling are presented: what are its consequences, how can it be obtained. In the fourth chapter quantum homology is defined, in particular for Lagrangian cobordism, and its ring and module structures are studied which are finally used in the last chapter to present examples of cobordisms which preserves uniruling.

In this thesis we study the properties of Lagrangian submanifolds of a symplectic manifold by using the relation of Lagrangian cobordism. More precisely, we are interested in determining when an elementary Lagrangian cobordism is trivial. Using techniques coming from Floer homology and the s-cobordism theorem, we show that under some topological assumptions, an exact Lagrangian cobordism is a Lagrangian pseudo-isotopy. This is a weaker version of a conjecture proposed by Biran and Cornea, which states that any exact Lagrangian cobordism is Hamiltonian isotopic to a Lagrangian suspension.

We define objects made of marked complex disks connected by metric line seg- ments and construct two sequences of moduli spaces of these objects, referred as the ⊗ version (nonsymmetric) and the • version (symmetric). This allows choices of coherent perturbations over the corresponding versions of the Floer trajectories proposed by Cornea and Lalonde ([CL]). These perturbations are intended to lead to an alternative geometric description of the (obstructed) A∞ and L∞ structures studied by Fukaya, Oh, Ohta and Ono ([FOOO2],[FOOO]) and Cho ([Cho]). Given a Pin± monotone lagrangian submanifold L ⊂ (M, ω) with mini- mal Maslov number ≥ 2, we define an A∞ -algebra structure from the critical points of a generic Morse function on L. We express this structure as a cochain complex extending the pearl complex introduced by Oh ([Oh]) and further ex- plicited by Biran and Cornea ([BC]), equipped with its quantum product. This could also be seen as an alternative geometric description of a Fukaya cate- gory of (M, ω) with L as its only object, a hamiltonian relative version appear- ing in [Sei]. Using spaces of quilted clusters, we verify, using more general quilted cluster spaces, that this defines a functor from a homotopy category of Pin± monotone lagrangian submanifolds hL mono,± (M, ω) to the homotopy category of cochain complexes hK(Λ-mod) where Λ is an appropriate Novikov ring.

We present in this thesis a few properties of monotone Lagrangian submanifolds. We first solve a conjecture of Barraud and Cornea in the monotone setting by showing that the relative Gromov radius of two Hamiltonian-isotopic Lagrangians gives a lower bound on the Hofer distance between them. The general non-monotone case remains open to this day. We define all the structures relevant to state and prove the conjecture. We then define a new version of a Lagrangian Seidel morphism through the recently introduced Lagrangian cobordisms of Biran and Cornea. We show that this new version is chain-homotopic to various other versions appearing in the litterature. That all these previous versions are the same is folklore but did not appear in the litterature. We conclude with a conjecture claiming that an exact triangle obtained by Lagrangian surgery is isomorphic to an exact triangle of Seidel involving the symplectic Dehn twist.

Given a symplectic manifold (M,ω) and a Lagrangian submanifold L, we construct versions of the symplectic blow-up and blow-down which are defined relative to L. Furthermore, if M admits an anti-symplectic involution ϕ, i.e. a diffeomorphism such that ϕ2 = Id and ϕ*ω = —ω , and we blow-up an appropriately symmetric configuration of symplectic balls, then we show that there exists an antisymplectic involution on the blow-up ~M as well. We derive a homological condition for real Lagrangian surfaces L = Fix(ϕ) which determines when the topology of L changes after a blow down, and we then use these constructions to study the real packing numbers for real Lagrangian submanifolds in (ℂP²,ℝP²).

Let (M,ω) be a closed connected symplectic maniflod. We consider lagrangian submanifolds α : L →֒ (M,ω). If α is monotone, i.e. there exists η > 0 such that ημ = ω, Paul Biran and Octav Cornea defined a relative version of quantum homology. In this relative setting they deformed the boundary operator of the Morse complex as well as the intersection product by means of pseudoholomorphic discs. We note (QH(L,Λ), ∗) the quantum homology of L endowed with the quantum product. The main goal of this dissertation is to generalize their construction to a larger class of spaces. Namely, we consider : either the so called almost monotone lagrangian submanifolds, i.e. α is C1-close to a monotone lagrangian embedding, or the toric fibers of toric Fano manifolds. In those cases, we are able to generalize the constructions made by Biran and Cornea. However, in those non necessarily monotone cases, QH(L) will depend on some choices, but in a way irrelevant for the applications we have in mind. In the almost monotone case, we are mainly interested in displaceability, uniruling and ernegy estimates for hamiltonian diffeomorphsims. Finally, we end by an application, that combine the two approaches, concerning the dynamics of hamiltonian that displace all non-monotone toric fibers of CPn.

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