Submanifolds and the Hofer norm (Q466905)

Let \((M,\omega)\) be a symplectic manifold and let \(\mathrm{Ham}(M,\omega)\) be the group of (compactly supported) Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of \(M\). If \(\mathrm{Ham}(M,\omega)\) acts transitively on a subset \(S\) of \(M\) then the Hofer norm defines a pseudometric \(\delta\) on \(S\) called Chekanov-Hofer pseudometric. This paper is devoted to the study of \(\delta\) in the case \(S\) is the orbit of a closed subset \(N\) of \(M\). In particular \(N\) is called CH-rigid if \(\delta \) is non-degenerate and \(N\) is called weightless if \(\delta\) is identically zero on the orbit. The main results of this paper are the following: if a closed submanifold is CH-rigid then it is coisotropic and the condition is sufficient under additional geometric assumptions; the image of a generic closed embedding with codimension larger than one is weightless. As an application of these results, examples of submanifolds with zero displacement energy not infinitesimally displaceable are obtained.