Symplectic diffeomorphisms as isometries of Hofer's norm

DOI10.1016/S0040-9383(96)00024-9zbMath0874.53028MaRDI QIDQ2564633

François Lalonde, Leonid Polterovich

Publication date: 15 January 1997

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian submanifolds; nonpositive curvature; Hofer metric; Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms; symplectic diffeomorphisms; bounded symplectomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

37J99: Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems

53C15: General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.)

57R50: Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms

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