Recent progress on symplectic embedding problems in four dimensions

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1018622108zbMATH Open1256.53054arXiv1101.1069OpenAlexW2061451544WikidataQ35002983 ScholiaQ35002983MaRDI QIDQ4907464FDOQ4907464

Michael Hutchings

Publication date: 2 February 2013

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We survey some recent progress on understanding when one four-dimensional symplectic manifold can be symplectically embedded into another. In 2010, McDuff established a number-theoretic criterion for the existence of a symplectic embedding of one four-dimensional ellipsoid into another. This is related to previously known criteria for when a disjoint union of balls can be symplectically embedded into a ball. The new theory of "ECH capacities" gives general obstructions to symplectic embeddings in four dimensions which turn out to be sharp in the above cases.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1069

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zbMATH Keywords

four-dimensional symplectic manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42)

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• Symplectic hypersurfaces in $\mathbb {C}P^3$
• Symplectic embeddings into four-dimensional concave toric domains
• Floer homologies, with applications
• Symplectic capacities from positive \(S^1\)-equivariant symplectic homology
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• The asymptotics of ECH capacities
• Fourier-Dedekind sums and an extension of Rademacher reciprocity
• On the Ekeland-Hofer symplectic capacities of the real bidisc
• Morse relations and Fredholm deformations of \(v\)-convex contact forms

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