The g-areas and the commutator length

DOI10.1142/S0129167X13500572zbMATH Open1276.53082arXiv1404.1004OpenAlexW1999674577MaRDI QIDQ2853392FDOQ2853392

Authors: François Lalonde, Andrei Teleman 

Publication date: 21 October 2013

Published in: International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The commutator length of a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism $finmathrmHam(M,omega)$ of a closed symplectic manifold $(M,omega)$ is by definition the minimal $k$ such that $f$ can be written as a product of $k$ commutators in $mathrmHam(M,omega)$. We introduce a new invariant for Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms, called the $k_{+}$-area, which measures the "distance", in a certain sense, to the subspace $mathcal{C}_k$ of all products of $k$ commutators. Therefore this invariant can be seen as the obstruction to writing a given Hamiltonian diffeomorphism as a product of $k$ commutators. We also consider an infinitesimal version of the commutator problem: what is the obstruction to writing a Hamiltonian vector field as a linear combination of $k$ Lie brackets of Hamiltonian vector fields? A natural problem related to this question is to describe explicitly, for every fixed $k$, the set of linear combinations of $k$ such Lie brackets. The problem can be obviously reformulated in terms of Hamiltonians and Poisson brackets. For a given Morse function $f$ on a symplectic Riemann surface $M$ (verifying a weak genericity condition) we describe the linear space of commutators of the form $f,g$, with $ginmathcal{C}^{i}nfty(M,mathbbR)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1004

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zbMATH Keywords

cohomological equationcommutatorHamiltonian diffeomorphismHofer norminfinitesimal commutator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40)

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