A remark on the stabilized symplectic embedding problem for ellipsoids (Q1746640)

In this work obstructions for stabilized symplectic embeddings of an ellipsoid into a ball are constructed, in the case when the ellipsoid has eccentricity of the form \(3l-1\) for some integer \(l\). The author uses the knowledge of the four-dimensional case to understand symplectic embeddings \(\phi: \mathcal E\times \mathbb R^{2k} \to \mathcal E'\times \mathbb R^{2k}\) with \(k>0\) and \(\mathcal E, \mathcal E'\) of dimension four. Let \(E(a_1,\dots,a_n)=\{z: \pi\sum_j \frac{|z_j|^2}{a_j}\leq 1\}\), for \(0< a_1\leq\cdots\leq a_n\), be the standard ellipsoid in the Euclidean space and let \(E(a,a)=B^4(a)\) be the four-ball of radius \(r\) and capacity \(a=\pi r^2\). The author is interested in computing the function \(c_k(x)=\operatorname{inf}\{\mu : E(1,x)\times \mathbb R^{2k} \to B^4(\mu)\times \mathbb R^{2k} \; \text{ symplectic embedding}\}\). Note that \(c_0(x)\geq\sqrt x\) because \(\operatorname{vol} E(1,x)= \operatorname{vol} B^4(\sqrt x)\). It was shown in [\textit{D. Cristofaro-Gardiner} and \textit{R. Hind}, Comment. Math. Helv. 93, No. 1, 1--32 (2018; Zbl 1398.53083)] that this stabilizes, that is, \(c_k(x)=c_0(x),\) for \(1\leq x\leq \tau^4\) where \(\tau=\frac{1+\sqrt5}{2}\). Also it is know that \(c_k(x)= \frac{3x}{x+1}\), with \(x=\frac{f_{4i+6}}{f_{4i+2}}\) where \(f_j\) is the Fibonacci number of index \(j\). In this work this result is extended to the case when \(x\) is an arbitrary integer number of the form \(3m-1\). Indeed, the author proves in Theorem 1.1 that \(c_k(3m-1)=\frac{3m-1}{m}\) for all integer \(m>0\) and all \(k\geq 1\).