ECH embedding obstructions for rational surfaces

Publication date 23 August 2020

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42)

Abstract: Let

(Y, A)

be a smooth rational surface or a possibly singular toric surface with ample divisor

A

. We show that a family of ECH-based, algebro-geometric invariants

c_{k}^{e x t a l g} (Y, A)

proposed by Wormleighton obstruct symplectic embeddings into

Y

. Precisely, if

(X, o m e g a_{X})

is a

4

-dimensional star-shaped domain and

o m e g a_{Y}

is a symplectic form Poincar'e dual to

[A]

then [(X,omega_X) ext{ embeds into }(Y,omega_Y) ext{ symplectically } implies c^{ ext{ECH}}_k(X,omega_X) le c^{ ext{alg}}_k(Y,A)] We give three applications to toric embedding problems: (1) these obstructions are sharp for embeddings of concave toric domains into toric surfaces; (2) the Gromov width and several generalizations are monotonic with respect to inclusion of moment polygons of smooth (and many singular) toric surfaces; and (3) the Gromov width of such a toric surface is bounded by the lattice width of its moment polygon, addressing a conjecture of Averkov--Hofscheier--Nill.

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