Generalizations of Ekeland-Hofer and Hofer-Zehnder symplectic capacities and applications (Q6100887)

The Hofer-Zehnder symplectic capacity is a symplectic invariant that may be used to establish the existence of closed characteristics on the energy surfaces of a symplectic manifold \((M,\omega)\). In Subsection 1.1 analogs of Ekeland-Hofer symplectic capacities are constructed, while in Subsection 1.2 the construction of analogs of Hofer-Zehnder symplectic capacities based on the class of Hamiltonian boundary value problems is given. All of this is motivated by the work of \textit{F. H. Clarke} [SIAM J. Control Optim. 20, 355--359 (1982; Zbl 0506.58012)] and \textit{I. Ekeland} [Convexity methods in Hamiltonian mechanics. Berlin etc.: Springer-Verlag (1990; Zbl 0707.70003)]. Subsection 1.3 is devoted to application to Hamiltonian dynamics, although it does not contain a single example. Subsection 1.4 is devoted to an extension of \textit{E. Neduv}'s theorem [Math. Z. 236, No. 1, 99--112 (2001; Zbl 0967.37031)], where it was shown that differentiability of the Hofer-Zehnder capacity can be used to derive some results on fixed period problems of Hamiltonian systems. Similarly differentiability also holds for the Hofer-Zehnder capacity with the boundary value problem. Sections 2--8 are used to prove the theorems stated in Section 1.