Epsilon-non-squeezing and C^0-rigidity of epsilon-symplectic embeddings

DOI10.4310/JSG.2022.V20.N5.A5zbMATH Open1520.53073arXiv1805.01390OpenAlexW2798472738MaRDI QIDQ6042870FDOQ6042870

Authors: Stefan Müller 

Publication date: 4 May 2023

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

Abstract: An embedding $varphicolon(M_1,omeg{a}_1)o(M_2,omeg{a}_2)$ (of symplectic manifolds of the same dimension) is called $epsilon$-symplectic if the difference $varph{i}^{\ast }omeg{a}_2-omeg{a}_1$ is $epsilon$-small with respect to a fixed Riemannian metric on $M_1$. We prove that if a sequence of $epsilon$-symplectic embeddings converges uniformly (on compact subsets) to another embedding, then the limit is $E$-symplectic, where the number $E$ depends only on $epsilon$ and $E(epsilon)o0$ as $epsilono0$. This generalizes $C^0$-rigidity of symplectic embeddings, and answers a question in topological quantum computing by Michael Freedman. As in the symplectic case, this rigidity theorem can be deduced from the existence and properties of symplectic capacities. An $epsilon$-symplectic embedding preserves capacity up to an $epsilon$-small error, and linear $epsilon$-symplectic maps can be characterized by the property that they preserve the symplectic spectrum of ellipsoids (centered at the origin) up to an error that is $epsilon$-small. We sketch an alternative proof using the shape invariant, which gives rise to an analogous characterization and rigidity theorem for $epsilon$-contact embeddings.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01390

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zbMATH Keywords

symplectic capacitysymplectic embeddingGromov's non-squeezing theoremcontact embeddingshape invariant\(C^0\)-rigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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• \(C^0\)-characterization of symplectic and contact embeddings and Lagrangian rigidity
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