First steps in stable Hamiltonian topology

DOI10.4171/JEMS/505MaRDI QIDQ2019199zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors K. Cieliebak, E. Volkov

Publication date 27 March 2015

Published in Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5084

zbMATH Keywords

stable Hamiltonian topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35)

Abstract: In this paper we study topological properties of stable Hamiltonian structures. In particular, we prove the following results in dimension three: The space of stable Hamiltonian structures modulo homotopy is discrete; there exist stable Hamiltonian structures that are not homotopic to a positive contact structure; stable Hamiltonian structures are generically Morse-Bott (i.e. all closed orbits are Bott nondegenerate) but not Morse; the standard contact structure on the 3-sphere is homotopic to a stable Hamiltonian structure which cannot be embedded in 4-space. Moreover, we derive a structure theorem in dimension three and classify stable Hamiltonian structures supported by an open book. We also discuss implications for the foundations of symplectic field theory.

Review text

A stable Hamiltonian structure (SHS) is a generalization of a contact structure as well as a taut foliation defined by a closed \(1\)-form. These structures were introduced by \textit{H. Hofer} and \textit{E. Zehnder} [Symplectic invariants and Hamiltonian dynamics. Basel: Birkhäuser (1994; Zbl 0805.58003)] as a condition on hypersurfaces for which the Weinstein conjecture can be proved. The present long paper is an excellent survey on the topology of SHS due to their implications in the foundations of symplectic field theory. For a de Rham cohomology class \(\eta \in H^2(M, \mathbb{R})\) the space of SHS with \([\omega ]=\eta \) equipped with the \(C^k\)-topology for some \(2\leq k\leq \infty \) is denoted by \(\mathrm{SHS}_{\eta }(M)\). Hence, the main result of this study is the following reformulation of Theorem 4.4: Every SHS \((\omega , \lambda )\) on a closed \(3\)-manifold \(M\) has a \(C^5\)-neighbourhood in \(\mathrm{SHS}_{[\omega ]}(M)\) in which all SHS are stable homotopic to \((\omega , \lambda )\). This means that for any closed \(3\)-manifold \(M\) and cohomology class \(\eta \in H^2(M, \mathbb{R})\) the space \(\mathrm{SHS}_{\eta }(M)/\sim\) is discrete in the topological sense, which justifies the term of \textit{stable Hamiltonian structure}.

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