Hofer-Zehnder capacity and length minimizing Hamiltonian paths

DOI10.2140/GT.2001.5.799MaRDI QIDQ1601285zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dusa McDuff, Slimowitz, Jennifer

Publication date 25 June 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0101085, https://eudml.org/doc/122298, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/gt/GTVol5/paper25.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian diffeomorphismsHofer normHoferZehnder capacitySymplectic geometry

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)

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.

Review text

The authors 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 a closed symplectic manifold \((M, \omega)\). They use the criteria of \textit{E. Lalonde} and \textit{D. McDuff} [Invent. Math. 122, 1-33, 35-69 (1995; Zbl 0844.58020, Zbl 0844.58021)], unnecessary restrictions of which, such as the hypothesis that \(\dim M\leq 4\) or \((M,\omega)\) is semi-monotone, is removed. They describe the role of Hofer-Zehnder capacities to prove the result and discuss in detail some technicalities about the intersections of bubbles and Floer trajectories. In the last part, they explain that the area-capacity inequality for the general manifold \((M,\omega)\) is obtained by using the method of \(S^1\)-equivariant Gromov-Witten invariants and virtual modular cycles of \textit{G. Liu and G. Tian} [Acta Math. Sinica 15, No.1, 53-80 (1999; Zbl 0928.53041)]. For notions of Gromov-Witten invariants and others, readers can consult the book of \textit{D. McDuff} and \textit{D. Salamon} [Univ. Lecture Series 6, Am. Math. Soc. (1994; Zbl 0809.53002)].

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