Boundary Depth and Deformations of Symplectic Cohomology

Abstract: We study the relation between two versions of symplectic cohomology associated to a Liouville domain $D$ embedded in a symplectic manifold $M$: the ambient version $SC^*_M(D)$ defined over the Novikov field and depending on the embedding, and the intrinsic version $SC^*_{\theta}(D)$ depending on the choice of a local Liouville form and defined over the ground field. We show that when $D$ has sufficiently small boundary depth, the ambient version can be viewed as a deformation of the intrinsic one. This is achieved by constructing a filtration whose associated graded reproduces the intrinsic theory, and developing quantitative tools to control the deformation. We apply our results to constructing local pieces of the SYZ mirror.