On the growth sequence for symplectically hyperbolic manifolds (Q480812)

Let \((M,g)\) be a closed connected Riemannian manifold. Given a diffeomorphism \(\varphi\) on \(M\), its \textit{growth sequence} is defined by \[ \Gamma_n(\varphi):= \max\left(\max_{m\in M}|d\varphi^n(m)|_g, \max_{m\in M}|d\varphi^{-n}(m)|_g\right),\quad n\in \mathbb{N}. \] A closed symplectic manifold \((M,\omega)\) with \(\pi_2(M)=0\) is called \textit{symplectically hyperbolic}, if the symplectic form \(\omega\) admits a bounded primitive on the universal cover \(p:\widetilde M\to M\). Let \({\mathrm{Symp}}_0(M,\omega)\) be the identity component of the group of symplectomorphisms of a symplectic manifold \((M,\omega)\). For symplectically hyperbolic manifolds \((M,\omega)\), Polterovich showed in 2002 that \(\Gamma_n(\varphi)\gtrsim n\) when \(\varphi\in{{\mathrm{Symp}}}_0(M,\omega)\setminus\{\mathbf 1\}\) has a fixed point of contractible type. We recall that for two given positive sequences \(a_n,b_n\), one writes \(a_n\lesssim b_n\) if there exists \(c>0\) such that \(a_n\leq c(b_n+1)\) for all \(n\in \mathbb{N}\). In this paper the author proves that this statement does not depend on the existence of a fixed point. { Main Theorem:} Let \((M,\omega)\) be a symplectically hyperbolic manifold. If \(\varphi\in {\mathrm{Symp}}_0(M,\omega)\setminus\{\mathbf 1\}\), then \(\Gamma_n(\varphi)\gtrsim n\).