On the Hofer girth of the sphere of great circles

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Abstract: An oriented equator of mathbbS2 is the image of an oriented embedding mathbbS1hookrightarrowmathbbS2 such that it divides mathbbS2 into two equal area halves. Following Chekanov, we define the Hofer distance between two oriented equators as the infimal Hofer norm of a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism taking one to another. Consider mathcalEq+ the space of oriented equators. We define the Hofer girth of an embedding j:mathbbS2hookrightarrowmathcalEq+ as the infimum of the Hofer diameter of j(mathbbS2), where j is homotopic to j. There is a natural embedding i0:mathbbS2hookrightarrowmathcalEq+, sending a point on the sphere to the positively oriented great circle perpendicular to it. In this paper we provide an upper bound on the Hofer girth of i0.










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