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The main purpose of this note is to exhibit a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism loop undetected by the Seidel morphism of certain 2-point blow-ups of $S^2 \times S^2$, exactly one of which being monotone. As side remarks, we show that Seidel's morphism is injective on all Hirzebruch surfaces and discuss how to adapt the monotone example to the Lagrangian setting., 13 pages. In the second version the title is changed to emphasize the actual point of the paper and a "background" section is added so the paper is more self-contained

Since spectral invariants were introduced in cotangent bundles via generating functions by Viterbo in the seminal paper "Symplectic topology as the geometry of generating functions," they have been defined in various contexts, mainly via Floer homology theories, and then used in a great variety of applications. In this paper we extend their definition to monotone Lagrangians, which is so far the most general case for which a "classical" Floer theory has been developed. Then, we gather and prove the properties satisfied by these invariants, and which are crucial for their applications. Finally, as a demonstration, we apply these new invariants to symplectic rigidity of some specific monotone Lagrangians., 60 pages, added a relation to Hofer geometry; comments are welcome

Following McDuff and Tolman's work on toric manifolds [McDT06], we focus on 4-dimensional NEF toric manifolds and we show that even though Seidel's elements consist of infinitely many contributions, they can be expressed by closed formulas. From these formulas, we then deduce the expression of the quantum homology ring of these manifolds as well as their Landau-Ginzburg superpotential. We also give explicit formulas for the Seidel elements in some non-NEF cases. These results are closely related to recent work by Fukaya, Oh, Ohta, and Ono [FOOO11], Gonz��lez and Iritani [GI11], and Chan, Lau, Leung, and Tseng [CLLT12]. The main difference is that in the 4-dimensional case the methods we use are more elementary: they do not rely on open Gromov-Witten invariants nor mirror maps. We only use the definition of Seidel's elements and specific closed Gromov-Witten invariants which we compute via localization. So, unlike Alice, the computations contained in this paper are not particularly pretty but they do stay on their side of the mirror. This makes the resulting formulas directly readable from the moment polytope., 48 pages. v2: Some inaccuracies corrected, and exposition improved (after a thorough report of an anonymous referee). Some background material added and in particular section 2.5 in which we recall Spielberg's formulas, based on arXiv:math/0006156 by H. Spielberg

Starting from a given norm on the vector space of exact 1-forms of a compact symplectic manifold, we produce pseudo-distances on its symplectomorphism group by generalizing an idea due to Banyaga. We prove that in some cases (which include Banyaga's construction), their restriction to the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group is equivalent to the distance induced by the initial norm on exact 1-forms. We also define genuine "distances to the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group" which we use to derive several consequences, mainly in terms of flux groups., 21 pages, no figure; v2. various typos corrected, some references added. Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift

We prove that the Seidel morphism of $(M \times M', ��\oplus ��')$ is naturally related to the Seidel morphisms of $(M,��)$ and $(M',��')$, when these manifolds are monotone. We deduce that any homotopy class of loops of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of one component, with non-trivial image via Seidel's morphism, leads to an injection of the fundamental group of the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of the other component into the fundamental group of the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of the product. This result was inspired by and extends results obtained by Pedroza [P08]., 15 pages, no figure; v2: Abstract precised, typos corrected, references added

Let $(M,��)$ be a symplectic manifold compact or convex at infinity. Consider a closed Lagrangian submanifold $L$ such that $��|_{��_2(M,L)}=0$ and $��|_{��_2(M,L)}=0$, where $��$ is the Maslov index. Given any Lagrangian submanifold $L'$, Hamiltonian isotopic to $L$, we define Lagrangian spectral invariants associated to the non zero homology classes of $L$, depending on $L$ and $L'$. We show that they naturally generalize the Hamiltonian spectral invariants introduced by Oh and Schwarz, and that they are the homological counterparts of higher order invariants, which we also introduce here, via spectral sequence machinery introduced by Barraud and Cornea. These higher order invariants are new even in the Hamiltonian case. We provide a way to distinguish them one from another and estimate their difference in terms of a geometric quantity., 34 pages, 7 figures. v2: normalization of the spectral invariants. An explicit computation added (section 4.3). Published in Journal of Modern Dynamics