Beyond ECH capacities

DOI10.2140/GT.2016.20.1085zbMATH Open1338.53119arXiv1409.1352OpenAlexW1442063693MaRDI QIDQ280919FDOQ280919

Authors: Michael Hutchings 

Publication date: 10 May 2016

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: ECH (embedded contact homology) capacities give obstructions to symplectically embedding one four-dimensional symplectic manifold with boundary into another. These obstructions are known to be sharp when the domain and target are ellipsoids (proved by McDuff), and more generally when the domain is a "concave toric domain" and the target is a "convex toric domain" (proved by Cristofaro-Gardiner). However ECH capacities often do not give sharp obstructions, for example in many cases when the domain is a polydisk. This paper uses more refined information from ECH to give stronger symplectic embedding obstructions when the domain is a polydisk, or more generally a convex toric domain. We use these new obstructions to reprove a result of Hind-Lisi on symplectic embeddings of a polydisk into a ball, and generalize this to obstruct some symplectic embeddings of a polydisk into an ellipsoid. We also obtain a new obstruction to symplectically embedding one polydisk into another, in particular proving the four-dimensional case of a conjecture of Schlenk.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1352

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zbMATH Keywords

embedded contact homologysymplectic embeddings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42)

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