Hamiltonian commutators with large Hofer norm

DOI10.4310/JSG.2016.V14.N4.A7zbMATH Open1364.53075arXiv1409.7420MaRDI QIDQ508092FDOQ508092

Authors: Michael Khanevsky 

Publication date: 9 February 2017

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

Abstract: We show that commutators of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms may have arbitrarily large Hofer norm. The proposed technique is applicable to positive genus surfaces and their products. This gives partial answer to a question by McDuff and Polterovich.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7420

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zbMATH Keywords

displacement energyHofer normChekanov boundclosed surface of positive genusHamiltonian commutatorstransverse closed Lagrangians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12)

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