Topological contact dynamics I: symplectization and applications of the energy-capacity inequality

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM-2015-0014MaRDI QIDQ2515410zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Müller, Peter Spaeth

Publication date 5 August 2015

Published in advg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6705

zbMATH Keywords

bi-invariant metric on strictly contact diffeomorphism groupcontact \(C^0\)-rigiditycontact energy-capacity inequalitysymplectizationtopological automorphism of a contact structuretopological contact dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact systems (37J55) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05)

Abstract: We introduce topological contact dynamics of a smooth manifold carrying a cooriented contact structure, generalizing previous work in the case of a symplectic structure [MO07] or a contact form [BS12]. A topological contact isotopy is not generated by a vector field; nevertheless, the group identities, the transformation law, and classical uniqueness results in the smooth case extend to topological contact isotopies and homeomorphisms, giving rise to an extension of smooth contact dynamics to topological dynamics. Our approach is via symplectization of a contact manifold, and our main tools are an energy-capacity inequality we prove for contact diffeomorphisms, combined with techniques from measure theory on oriented manifolds. We establish non-degeneracy of a Hofer-like bi-invariant pseudo-metric on the group of strictly contact diffeomorphisms constructed in [BD06]. The topological automorphism group of the contact structure exhibits rigidity properties analogous to those of symplectic diffeomorphisms, including C^0-rigidity of contact and strictly contact diffeomorphisms.

Review text

There are two fundamental theorems in the study of Hamiltonian/symplectic diffeomorphism groups, namely, the existence of a non-degenerate bi-invariant metric for Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms and the \(C^0\) rigidity for symplectomorphisms. In the paper under review, the authors carry out the foundational study of existence of a non-degenerate bi-invariant metric for strictly contact diffeomorphisms as well as the \(C^0\)-rigidity for contact diffeomorphisms. To bridge between the symplectic world and the contact world, the authors perform the study in the symplectization of a contact manifold. Illustrative examples are given in Section 8 which highlight the fact that the situation in the contact setting is more intrigued than the symplectic analog. The paper ends with a preview of interesting results in a forthcoming papers by the authors.

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