On the injectivity radius in Hofer's geometry

DOI10.3934/ERA.2014.21.177MaRDI QIDQ1728131zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors François Lalonde, Yasha Savelyev

Publication date 22 February 2019

Published in Electronic Research Announcements in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4271

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: In this note we consider the following conjecture: given any closed symplectic manifold $M$, there is a sufficiently small real positive number $ho$ such that the open ball of radius $ho$ in the Hofer metric centered at the identity on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of $M$ is contractible, where the retraction takes place in that ball -- this is the strong version of the conjecture -- or inside the ambient group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of $M$ -- this is the weak version of the conjecture. We prove several results that support that weak form of the conjecture.

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