Growth of maps, distortion in groups and symplectic geometry

DOI10.1007/S00222-002-0251-XzbMATH Open1036.53064arXivmath/0111050OpenAlexW1981578506MaRDI QIDQ1401460FDOQ1401460

Leonid Polterovich

Publication date: 17 August 2003

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the present paper we study two sequences of real numbers associated to a symplectic diffeomorphism: the uniform norm of the differential of its n-th iteration and the word length of its n-th iteration. In the latter case we assume that our diffeomorphism lies in a finitely generated group of symplectic diffeomorphisms. We find lower bounds on the growth rates of these sequences in a number of situations. These bounds depend on the symplectic geometry of the manifold rather than on the specific choice of a diffeomorphism. They are obtained by using recent results of Schwarz on Floer homology. Applications to the Zimmer program are presented. We prove non-existence of certain non-linear symplectic representations for finitely generated groups including some lattices and Baumslag-Solitar groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0111050

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian diffeomorphismsymplectic diffeomorphismgrowth sequencesymplectic filling function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40)

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