Topological rigidity of Hamiltonian loops and quantum homology

DOI10.1007/S002220050289MaRDI QIDQ1127865zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors François Lalonde, Dusa McDuff, Leonid Polterovich

Publication date 18 February 1999

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9710017

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian loopsquantum homologysymplectic manifoldsymplectomorphismstopological rigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05)

Abstract: This paper studies the question of when a loop $phi$ in the group Symp$(M,omega)$ of symplectomorphisms of a symplectic manifold $(M,omega)$ is isotopic to a loop that is generated by a time-dependent Hamiltonian function. (Loops with this property are said to be Hamiltonian.) Our main result is that Hamiltonian loops are rigid in the following sense: if $phi$ is Hamiltonian with respect to $omega$, and if $ph{i}^{\prime }$ is a small perturbation of $phi$ that preserves another symplectic form $omeg{a}^{\prime }$, then $ph{i}^{\prime }$ is Hamiltonian with respect to $omeg{a}^{\prime }$. This allows us to get some new information on the structure of the flux group, i.e. the image of $p{i}_1(Symp(M,omega))$ under the flux homomorphism. We give a complete proof of our result for some manifolds, and sketch the proof in general. The argument uses methods developed by Seidel for studying properties of Hamiltonian loops via the quantum homology of $M$.

Review text

This paper studies the question of when a loop \(\phi= \{\phi_t\}_{0\leq t\leq 1}\) in the group \(\text{Symp} (M,\omega)\) of symplectomorphisms of a symplectic manifold \((M,\omega)\) is isotopic to a loop that is generated by a time-dependent Hamiltonian function. (Loops with this property are said to be Hamiltonian.) Our main result is that Hamiltonian loops are rigid in the following sense: if \(\phi\) is Hamiltonian with respect to \(\omega\), and if \(\phi'\) is a small perturbation of \(\phi\) that preserves another symplectic form \(\omega'\), then \(\phi'\) is Hamiltonian with respect to \(\omega'\). This allows us to get some new information on the structure of the flux group, i.e., the image of \(\pi_1(\text{Symp} (M,\omega))\) under the flux homomorphism. We give a complete proof of our result for some manifolds and sketch the proof in general. The argument uses methods developed by Seidel for studying properties of Hamiltonian loops via the quantum homology of \(M\).

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