Some quantitative results in C^0 symplectic geometry

DOI10.1007/S00222-015-0626-4MaRDI QIDQ2630280zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lev Buhovsky, E. Opshtein

Publication date 26 July 2016

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.0875

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathcal{C}^0\)-flexibility\(\mathcal{C}^0\)-rigiditycapacitiescontact geometryquantitative \(h\)-principlesymplectic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global submanifolds (53C40) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35)

Abstract: This paper studies the action of symplectic homeomorphisms on smooth submanifolds, with a main focus on the behaviour of symplectic homeomorphisms with respect to numerical invariants like capacities. Our main result is that a symplectic homeomorphism may preserve and squeeze codimension $4$ symplectic submanifolds ($C^0$-flexibility), while this is impossible for codimension $2$ symplectic submanifolds ($C^0$-rigidity). We also discuss $C^0$-invariants of coistropic and Lagrangian submanifolds, proving some rigidity results and formulating some conjectures. We finally formulate an Eliashberg-Gromov $C^0$-rigidity type question for submanifolds, which we solve in many cases. Our main technical tool is a quantitative $h$-principle result in symplectic geometry.

Review text

This paper proceeds with the study of the \(\mathcal{C}^0\)-symplectic geometry of smooth submanifolds, as initiated in [\textit{V. Humilière} et al., Duke Math. J. 164, No. 4, 767--799 (2015; Zbl 1327.53109); the second author, Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 42, No. 5, 857--864 (2009; Zbl 1186.53054)], with the main focus on the behaviour of symplectic homeomorphisms with respect to numerical invariants like capacities. The main result of this paper is that a symplectic homeomorphism may preserve and squeeze-codimension \(4\) symplectic submanifolds (\(\mathcal{C}^0\)-flexibility), while this is impossible for codimension-2 symplectic submanifolds (\(\mathcal{C}^0\)-rigidity). The authors also discuss \(\mathcal{C}^0\)-invariants of coistropic and Lagrangian submanifolds, proving some rigidity results and formulating some conjectures. They finally formulate an Eliashberg-Gromov \(\mathcal{C}^0\)-rigidity type question for submanifolds, which they solve in many cases. Their main technical tool is a quantitative \(h\)-principle result in symplectic geometry.

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