Packing symplectic manifolds by hand (Q2369455)

A symplectic \(k\) packing of a symplectic manifold \((M^{2n}, \omega)\) by equal balls consists of \(k\) symplectic embeddings of the standard symplectic open \(2n\)-ball \(B^{2n}(a)\) of rdius \(\sqrt{a/\pi}\). The problem has its origin in the theory of pseudo-holomorphic curves invented by \textit{M. L. Gromov} [Invent. Math. 82, 307--347 (1985; Zbl 0592.53025)] and is developed by \textit{D. McDuff} and \textit{L. Polterovich} [Invent. Math. 115, 405--429 (1994; Zbl 0833.53028)] in the context of algebraic geometry. In the present paper along earlier constructions by \textit{L. Traynor} [J. Differ. Geom. 42, 411--429 (1995; Zbl 0861.52008)] and others, the author gives explicit realizations of maximal packings of symplectic manifolds, such as ruled surfaces \(\pi: \Sigma_g\times S^2\to \Sigma_g\) (trivial bundle) and \(\Sigma_g\ltimes S^2\to\Sigma_g\) (nontrivial bundle) by making use of his flexible symplectomorphism from the open disk \(D(a)\) of area \(a\) in \(\mathbb R^2\) to \(\mathbb R(a)=\{(x, y)\in\mathbb R^2\mid 0<x<a,\;0<y<1\}\), which is obtanied by a ``hand made'' family of concentric loops in \(\mathbb R(a)\). The author gets more maximal packings and relative maximal packings which are different from the earlier constructions.