Hofer-Zehnder capacity and length minimizing Hamiltonian paths

DOI10.2140/GT.2001.5.799zbMATH Open1002.57056arXivmath/0101085OpenAlexW3104466251MaRDI QIDQ1601285FDOQ1601285

Authors: Dusa McDuff, Slimowitz, Jennifer 

Publication date: 25 June 2002

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use the criteria of Lalonde and McDuff to show that a path that is generated by a generic autonomous Hamiltonian is length minimizing with respect to the Hofer norm among all homotopic paths provided that it induces no non-constant closed trajectories in M. This generalizes a result of Hofer for symplectomorphisms of Euclidean space. The proof for general M uses Liu-Tian's construction of S^1-invariant virtual moduli cycles. As a corollary, we find that any semifree action of S^1 on M gives rise to a nontrivial element in the fundamental group of the symplectomorphism group of M. We also establish a version of the area-capacity inequality for quasicylinders.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0101085

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zbMATH Keywords

Hofer normHamiltonian diffeomorphismsSymplectic geometryHoferZehnder capacity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

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