Hofer geometry and cotangent fibers

DOI10.4310/JSG.2014.V12.N3.A8zbMATH Open1315.53031arXiv1301.4484MaRDI QIDQ462181FDOQ462181

Authors: Michael Usher 

Publication date: 15 October 2014

Published in: The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a class of Riemannian manifolds that include products of arbitrary compact manifolds with manifolds of nonpositive sectional curvature on the one hand, or with certain positive-curvature examples such as spheres of dimension at least 3 and compact semisimple Lie groups on the other, we show that the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group of the cotangent bundle contains as subgroups infinite-dimensional normed vector spaces that are bi-Lipschitz embedded with respect to Hofer's metric; moreover these subgroups can be taken to consist of diffeomorphisms supported in an arbitrary neighborhood of the zero section. In fact, the orbit of a fiber of the cotangent bundle with respect to any of these subgroups is quasi-isometrically embedded with respect to the induced Hofer metric on the orbit of the fiber under the whole group. The diffeomorphisms in these subgroups are obtained from reparametrizations of the geodesic flow. Our proofs involve a study of the Hamiltonian-perturbed Floer complex of a pair of cotangent fibers (or, more generally, of a conormal bundle together with a cotangent fiber). Although the homology of this complex vanishes, an analysis of its boundary depth yields the lower bounds on the Lagrangian Hofer metric required for our main results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4484

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian diffeomorphismHofer's metriccotangent bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05)

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