Recognition of objects through symplectic capacities

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2022.101903MaRDI QIDQ2168649zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yann Guggisberg, Fabian Ziltener

Publication date 26 August 2022

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04028

zbMATH Keywords

generalized symplectic capacitiesrecognization problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35)

Abstract: We prove that the generalized symplectic capacities recognize objects in symplectic categories whose objects are of the form $(M,omega)$, such that $M$ is a compact and 1-connected manifold, $omega$ is an exact symplectic form on $M$, and there exists a boundary component of $M$ with negative helicity. The set of generalized symplectic capacities is thus a complete invariant for such categories. This answers a question by Cieliebak, Hofer, Latschev, and Schlenk. It appears to be the first result concerning this question, except for recognition results for manifolds of dimension 2, ellipsoids, and polydiscs in $mathbb{R}^4$. Strikingly, our result holds more generally for differential form categories. Recognition of objects is therefore not a symplectic phenomenon. We also prove a version of the result for normalized capacities.

Review text

The article is concerned with the following question in symplectic geometry from [\textit{K. Cieliebak} et al., Math. Sci. Res. Inst. Publ. 54, 1--44 (2007; Zbl 1143.53341)]: if two symplectic manifolds \((M, \omega_M)\) and \((N, \omega_N)\) are not isomorphic to each other, then is there any symplectic capacity \(c\) such that \(c(M, \omega_M) \neq c(N, \omega_N)\)? This is called a \textit{recognization problem}. This problem is investigated by the authors in a general framework. Consider a category called \((m,k)\)-form category where its object-set consists of the pairs \((M^m, \omega)\) where \(\omega \in \Omega^k(M)\), that is, a differential \(k\)-form on an \(m\)-dimensional manifold \(M\), and its hom-set consists of smooth embeddings, up to conjugation of isomorphisms, that pullback the paired forms. For instance, the category of all symplectic manifolds is a subcategory of the \((2n, 2)\)-form category. One can generalize the concept of symplectic capacities to a certain family of real-valued functions, still called capacities, on a \((m,k)\)-form category. The main result of this article proves that if a \((kn,k)\)-form category \( \mathcal C\) (where \(n \geq 2\)) has all its objects \((M, \omega)\) satisfying the following topological conditions: (1) \(M\) is compact, connected and simply connected; (2) \(\omega\) is exact and \(\omega^k\) is a volume form; (3) there exists a connected component \(A\) of \(\partial M\) such that \(\int_A \alpha \wedge (\omega|_A)^{n-1} <0\) where \(\alpha\) is any primitive of \(\omega|_A\), then capacities on \(\mathcal C\) can recognize objects. This article also provides examples to confirm that neither the compactness condition in (1) above nor the integration condition (3) above can be dropped.

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