The symplectic cohomology of magnetic cotangent bundles (Q6058054)

The notion of a magnetic geodesic flow, which models the motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field, is a natural generalization of the notion of geodesic flow on a Riemannian manifold. The symplectic framework is as follows. Take the cotangent bundle \(T^*N\) of a manifold \(N\) equipped with its canonical symplectic form, \(\omega\); assume that \(\sigma\) is a closed 2-form on \(N\) and construct the symplectic form \[ \omega_\sigma = \omega + \pi^* \sigma, \] where \(\pi : T^*N \longrightarrow N\) is the canonical projection. We call \(\omega_\sigma\) a magnetic symplectic form, and we refer to the symplectic manifold \((T^*N, \omega_\sigma)\) as a magnetic cotangent bundle. The aim of the current paper is to study how the symplectic topology of \((T^*N, \omega_\sigma)\) is influenced by the choice of \(\sigma\). The authors construct a family version of symplectic Floer cohomology for magnetic cotangent bundles, using the dissipative method for compactness introduced by \textit{Y. Groman} in [Geom. Topol. 27, No. 4, 1273--1390 (2023; Zbl 07699412)]. So they obtain a lot of new results as well as interesting applications. For instance, if \(N\) is a closed orientable manifold and \(\sigma\) is a magnetic form that is not weakly exact, then the \(\pi_1\)-sensitive Hofer-Zehnder capacity of any compact set in the magnetic cotangent bundle determined by \(\sigma\) is finite.