Recovering generalized homology from Floer homology: the complex oriented case
Laurent Côté, Yusuf Barış Kartal
TL;DR
This work constructs and analyzes the completed Tate cohomology $\widehat{R}_{S^1}^*(X)$ for filtered $S^1$-equivariant spectra with a complex oriented theory $R$, and proves a stability result for Liouville manifolds: the completed Tate cohomology of the filtered spectral symplectic cohomology $SH_S(M,\mathbb{S})$ coincides with that of the trivial filtration $\Sigma^\infty (M/\partial_\infty M)$, thus recovering the stable homotopy type of $M$. The authors provide explicit calculations for Eilenberg–MacLane spectra, Morava $K$-theories, and complex $K$-theory, showing that torsion and integral homology—and in favorable ranges even $KU$-theory—are determined from the filtered equivariant Floer data. A key input is a local Floer homotopy computation near autonomous Hamiltonian orbits, realized as Thom spectra of equivariant virtual bundles, which underpins the global Tate-cohomology calculations. Together, these results support Treumann’s conjecture-style intuition that filtered equivariant Floer data encodes substantial stable-homotopy information about the underlying manifold, with potential implications for understanding complex $K$-theory and higher chromatic information from Floer theory.
Abstract
We associate an invariant called the completed Tate cohomology to a filtered circle-equivariant spectrum and a complex oriented cohomology theory. We show that when the filtered spectrum is the spectral symplectic cohomology of a Liouville manifold, this invariant depends only on the stable homotopy type of the underlying manifold. We make explicit computations for several complex oriented cohomology theories, including Eilenberg-Maclane spectra, Morava K-theories, their integral counterparts, and complex K-theory. We show that the result for Eilenberg-Maclane spectra depends only on the rational homology, and we use the computations for Morava K-theory to recover the integral homology (as an ungraded group). In a different direction, we use the completed Tate cohomology computations for the complex K-theory to recover the complex K-theory of the underlying manifold from its equivariant filtered Floer homotopy type. A key Floer theoretic input is the computation of local equivariant Floer theory near the orbit of an autonomous Hamiltonian, which may be of independent interest.
