Symplectic diffeomorphisms as isometries of Hofer's norm

DOI10.1016/S0040-9383(96)00024-9MaRDI QIDQ2564633zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors François Lalonde, Leonid Polterovich

Publication date 15 January 1997

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0040-9383(96)00024-9

zbMATH Keywords

bounded symplectomorphismsHamiltonian diffeomorphismsHofer metricLagrangian submanifoldsnonpositive curvaturesymplectic diffeomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

Review text

The main subject of this paper is the study of the subgroup \(BI(M)\) of all so-called bounded symplectomorphisms of a symplectic manifold \(M\). The terminus ``bounded is defined with the help of the Hofer metric on the group \(\text{Ham}_c(M)\) of compactly supported Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. \(BI(M)\) is a natural candidate for the subgroup of the group \(\text{Symp}_c(M)\) of compactly supported symplectic diffeomorphisms of \(M\), which satisfies the non-disjunction properties of Lagrangian submanifolds. The authors show that an element of \(BI(M)\) can never disjoin from itself a Lagrangian submanifold admitting a metric of nonpositive curvature and whose fundamental group injects in the fundamental group of \(M\). The authors conjecture that the intersection of \(BI(M)\) with the identity component of \(\text{Symp}_c(M)\) coincides with \(\text{Ham}_c(M)\). They prove this for products of manifolds of genus \(>0\). In the case of a surface they prove that \(BI(M)=\text{Ham}_c(M)\).

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