On the Hofer geometry injectivity radius conjecture

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNW023MaRDI QIDQ4560564zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yasha Savelyev

Publication date 12 December 2018

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.02740

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05)

Abstract: We verify here some variants of topological and dynamical flavor of the injectivity radius conjecture in Hofer geometry, Lalonde-Savelyev cite{citeLalondeSavelyevOntheinjectivityradiusinHofergeometry} in the case of $Ham(S^2)$ and $Ham(Sigma,omega)$, for $Sigma$ a closed positive genus surface. In particular we show that any loop in $Ham(S^2)$, respectively $Ham(Sigma,omega)$ with $L^{+}$ Hofer length less than $area(S^2)/2$, respectively any $L^{+}$ length is contractible through ($L^{+}$) Hofer shorter loops, in the $C^{infty}$ topology. We also prove some stronger variants of this statement on the loop space level. One dynamical type corollary is that there are no smooth, positive Morse index (Ustilovsky) geodesics, in $Ham(S^2)$, respectively in $Ham(Sigma,omega)$ with $L^{+}$ Hofer length less than $area(S^2)/2$, respectively any length. The above condition on the geodesics can be expanded as an explicit and elementary dynamical condition on the associated Hamiltonian flow. We also give some speculations on connections of this later result with curvature properties of the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group of surfaces.

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