Submanifolds and the Hofer norm

DOI10.4171/JEMS/470zbMATH Open1307.53071arXiv1201.2926MaRDI QIDQ466905FDOQ466905

Authors: Michael Usher 

Publication date: 31 October 2014

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Chekanov showed that the Hofer norm on the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group of a geometrically bounded symplectic manifold induces a nondegenerate metric on the orbit of any compact Lagrangian submanifold under the group. In this paper we consider the orbits of more general submanifolds. We show that, for the Chekanov-Hofer pseudometric on the orbit of a closed submanifold to be a genuine metric, it is necessary for the submanifold to be coisotropic, and we show that this condition is sufficient under various additional geometric assumptions. At the other extreme, we show that the image of a generic closed embedding with any codimension larger than one is "weightless," in the sense that the Chekanov-Hofer pseudometric on its orbit vanishes identically. In particular this yields examples of submanifolds which have zero displacement energy but are not infinitesimally displaceable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2926

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zbMATH Keywords

coisotropic submanifoldHamiltonian diffeomorphismsHofer metricsymplectic rigidityweightlessness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Canonical transformations in symplectic and contact geometry (53D22)

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