Hofer-Like Geometry and Flux Theory

DOI10.1080/1726037X.2021.2011110MaRDI QIDQ5029604zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stéphane Tchuiaga

Publication date 14 February 2022

Published in Journal of Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07925

zbMATH Keywords

homotopyrigiditysymplectic manifoldsmetricsisotopiesdifferential topological aspects of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rigidity results (53C24) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

Abstract: This paper meticulously revisit and study the flux geometry of any compact oriented manifold $(M;W)$. We generalize several well-known factorization results, exhibit some orbital conditions for the study of flux geometry, give a proof of the discreteness of the flux group for volume-preserving diffeomorphisms, show that any smooth path in the kernel of the flux is a vanishing flux path, and show that the kernel of the flux for volume-preserving diffeomorphisms is $C^1$closed inside the group of all volume-preserving diffeomorphisms isotopic to the identity map:This recovers several results from symplectic geometry. The fix-points theory does not resist to the above machinery: We prove a general contractibility result with respect to the orbits of the fix-points for volume-preserving diffeomorphisms isotopic to the identity map via vanishing-flux paths, generalize and solve the Arnold conjecture using the Thurston fragmentation property. In the sequel, we use fix-points to: Characterize the flux geometry of certain $C^0$limits of sequences of vanishing-flux paths and volumepreserving diffeomorphisms. Beside this, a $C^0$criterion for the existence of at least one fix-point is given, and a weak version of the generalized $C^0$flux conjecture is solved. Finally, we construct a pseudo right-invariant metric on the group of all volume-preserving diffeomorphisms isotopic to the identity map, prove several comparison results suitable to the study of the Hofer-like geometry of the group $Ham(N;w)$, of all Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of a closed symplectic manifold $(N;w)$, derive the equivalence between the Hofer and the Hofer-like metrics on $Ham(N;w)$, and exhibit a computational proof of the non-degeneracy of the Hofer-like energies: Here, an outcome is that the Calabi group controls the Hofer-like geometry of the group $Ham(N;w)$ of any closed symplectic manifold $(N;w)$.

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