@article{1471618,
      recid = {1471618},
      author = {Geiges, Hansjörg, and Zehmisch, Kai,},
      title = {A course on holomorphic discs /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xviii, 189 pages) :},
      abstract = {This textbook, based on a one-semester course taught  several times by the authors, provides a self-contained,  comprehensive yet concise introduction to the theory of  pseudoholomorphic curves. Gromov’s nonsqueezing theorem in  symplectic topology is taken as a motivating example, and a  complete proof using pseudoholomorphic discs is presented.  A sketch of the proof is discussed in the first chapter,  with succeeding chapters guiding the reader through the  details of the mathematical methods required to establish  compactness, regularity, and transversality results.  Concrete examples illustrate many of the more complicated  concepts, and well over 100 exercises are distributed  throughout the text. This approach helps the reader to gain  a thorough understanding of the powerful analytical tools  needed for the study of more advanced topics in symplectic  topology. This text can be used as the basis for a graduate  course, and it is also immensely suitable for independent  study. Prerequisites include complex analysis, differential  topology, and basic linear functional analysis; no prior  knowledge of symplectic geometry is assumed. This book is  also part of the Virtual Series on Symplectic Geometry.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1471618},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36064-0},
}