On the uniqueness of Hofer's geometry

DOI10.1007/S00039-011-0143-6MaRDI QIDQ657863zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lev Buhovsky, Yaron Ostrover

Publication date 10 January 2012

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.0661

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian diffeomorphismHofer's metricbi-invariant Finsler metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65)

Abstract: We study the class of norms on the space of smooth functions on a closed symplectic manifold, which are invariant under the action of the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. Our main result shows that any such norm that is continuous with respect to the $C^{infty}$-topology, is dominated from above by the $L_{infty}$-norm. As a corollary, we obtain that any bi-invariant Finsler pseudo-metric on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms that is generated by an invariant norm that satisfies the aforementioned continuity assumption, is either identically zero or equivalent to Hofer's metric.

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