The Gromov width of 4-dimensional tori

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Abstract: We show that every 4-dimensional torus with a linear symplectic form can be fully filled by one symplectic ball. If such a torus is not symplectomorphic to a product of 2-dimensional tori with equal sized factors, then it can also be fully filled by any finite collection of balls provided only that their total volume is less than that of the 4-torus with its given linear symplectic form.


A \textit{symplectic manifold} is a \(2n\)-dimensional manifold \(M\) together with a closed 2-form \(\omega\) such that \(\omega^n\) is non-zero everywhere. For example, \(\omega_0:=dx_1\wedge dy_1+dx_2\wedge dy_2\) is a symplectic structure on \(\mathbb{R}^4\). Other examples are given by the quotient of \(({\mathbb R}^4,\omega_0)\) by a suitable lattice \(\Lambda\). Such a quotient manifold is necessarily a 4-torus, and the resulting symplectic form is called a \textit{linear symplectic form} on a 4-torus. It is not known whether every symplectic form on a 4-torus is symplectomorphic to such a form.NEWLINENEWLINEGiven \(a>0\) we consider the open ball of capacity \(a\), i.e. we consider NEWLINE\[NEWLINE B^4(a):=\{ z\in \mathbb{C}^2\,|\, \pi(|z_1|^2+|z_2|^2|)<a\} NEWLINE\]NEWLINE as a subset of the symplectic space \(({\mathbb R}^4,\omega_0)\). The \textit{ball filling number} of a finite volume symplectic manifold \((M,\omega)\) is defined as NEWLINE\[NEWLINE p(M,\omega):=\text{sup} \frac{ \text{Vol}(B^4(a))}{\text{Vol}(M,\omega)},NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where the supremum is taken over all balls \(B^4(a)\) that symplectically embed into \((M,\omega)\). If \(p(M,\omega)<1\), then one says that \textit{there is a filling obstruction}, while if \(p(M,\omega)=1\), one says that \((M,\omega)\) \textit{admits a full filling by one ball}.NEWLINENEWLINEThere are symplectic manifolds which have a filling obstruction. But the main theorem of the paper says that a 4-torus with a linear symplectic form admits a full filling by one ball.



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