Mini-max theory, spectral invariants and geometry of the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group
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Publication:6471908
arXivmath/0206092MaRDI QIDQ6471908FDOQ6471908
Publication date: 10 June 2002
Abstract: In this paper, we first develop a mini-max theory of the action functional over the semi-infinite cycles via the chain level Floer homology theory and construct spectral invariants of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms on arbitrary compact symplectic manifold (M,omega). To each given time dependent Hamiltonian function H and quantum cohomology class 0 not equal a element of QH^*(M), we associate an invariant rho(H;a) which varies continuously over H in the C^0-topology. This is obtained as the mini-max value over the semi-infinite cycles whose homology class is `dual' to the given quantum cohomology class a on the covering space widetilde Omega_0(M) of the contractible loop space Omega_0(M). We call them the Novikov cycles. We then use the spectral invariants to construct a new invariant norm on the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group and a partial order on the set of time-dependent Hamiltonian functions of arbitrary compact symplectic manifolds. As some applications, we obtain a new lower bound of the Hofer norm of non-degenerate Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms in terms of the area of certain pseudo-holomorphic curves and prove the semi-global C^1-flatness of the Hofer norm.
Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45) Hamilton's equations (70H05) Hamilton's principle (70H25)
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