Spectral invariants, analysis of the Floer moduli space, and geometry of the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group

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Abstract: In this paper, we apply spectral invariants, constructed in [Oh5,8], to the study of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of closed symplectic manifolds (M,omega). Using spectral invariants, we first construct an invariant norm called the {it spectral norm} on the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group and obtain several lower bounds for the spectral norm in terms of the e-regularity theorem and the symplectic area of certain pseudo-holomorphic curves. We then apply spectral invariants to the study of length minimizing properties of certain Hamiltonian paths {it among all paths}. In addition to the construction of spectral invariants, these applications rely heavily on the {it chain level Floer theory} and on some existence theorems with energy bounds of pseudo-holomorphic sections of certain Hamiltonian fibrations with prescribed monodromy. The existence scheme that we develop in this paper in turn relies on some careful geometric analysis involving {it adiabatic degeneration} and {it thick-thin decomposition} of the Floer moduli spaces which has an independent interest of its own. We assume that (M,omega) is {it strongly semi-positive} throughout, which will be removed in a sequel.




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