On the injectivity radius in Hofer's geometry

DOI10.3934/ERA.2014.21.177zbMATH Open1407.53095arXiv1404.4271OpenAlexW2963485658WikidataQ123264985 ScholiaQ123264985MaRDI QIDQ1728131FDOQ1728131

Yasha Savelyev, François Lalonde

Publication date: 22 February 2019

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

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.

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

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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)

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