Coisotropic displacement and small subsets of a symplectic manifold (Q431274)

This paper studies the following question in symplectic geometry: ``How much symplectic geometry can a small subset of a symplectic manifold carry?''. The authors explore this problem from several perspectives, based on a result on coisotropic intersections that they prove. To this end, they define for a coisotropic submanifold, say \(N\), of a symplectic manifold \((M,\omega)\), a real number which they call the ``split minimal symplectic action'' of \(N\), and denote it by \(A_\times(N)\). The main theorem they obtain is the following: If \(N\) is a nonempty closed connected regular coisotropic submanifold and \(\phi:M\to M \) is a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism whose Hofer norm is less than \(A_x(N)\), then \(N\cap\phi(N)\) is nonempty. From this main theorem, the authors deduce, for example, the following: (a) lower bounds on the displacement energy of a subset of a symplectic manifold; (b) a stable non-squeezing result for neighborhoods of products of unit spheres; (c) existence of a ``badly squeezable'' set in \(\mathbb R^{2n}\) of Hausdorff dimension at most \(d\), for every \(n\geq 2\) and \(d\geq n\); (d) existence of a stably exotic symplectic form on \(\mathbb R^{2n}\); and so on. These partially answers the question that the authors ask at the beginning. Some relevant work on this topic can be found in [\textit{Yu. V. Chekanov}, Duke Math. J. 95, No. 1, 213--226 (1998; Zbl 0977.53077); \textit{F. Ziltener}, J. Symplectic Geom. 8, No. 1, 1--24 (2010; Zbl 1208.57011); the authors, ``Hofer geometry of a subset of a symplectic manifold'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1102.4889}].