Geometry of contact transformations and domains: orderability versus squeezing

DOI10.2140/GT.2006.10.1635zbMATH Open1134.53044arXivmath/0511658OpenAlexW2171232534MaRDI QIDQ860169FDOQ860169

Authors: Sang Seon Kim, Leonid Polterovich, Yakov Eliashberg 

Publication date: 23 January 2007

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Gromov's famous non-squeezing theorem (1985) states that the standard symplectic ball cannot be symplectically squeezed into any cylinder of smaller radius. Does there exist an analogue of this result in contact geometry? Our main finding is that the answer depends on the sizes of the domains in question: We establish contact non-squeezing on large scales, and show that it disappears on small scales. The algebraic counterpart of the (non)-squeezing problem for contact domains is the question of existence of a natural partial order on the universal cover of the contactomorphisms group of a contact manifold. In contrast to our earlier beliefs, we show that the answer to this question is very sensitive to the topology of the manifold. For instance, we prove that the standard contact sphere is non-orderable while the real projective space is known to be orderable. Our methods include a new embedding technique in contact geometry as well as a generalized Floer homology theory which contains both cylindrical contact homology and Hamiltonian Floer homology. We discuss links to a number of miscellaneous topics such as topology of free loops spaces, quantum mechanics and semigroups. An erratum is attached whose purpose is to is to correct a number of inconsistencies in the main paper. These are related to the grading of generalized Floer homology and do not affect formulations and proofs of the main results of the paper.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511658

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zbMATH Keywords

Floer homologycontact manifoldsorderabilityholomorphic curvescontact squeezingcontact squeezing and orderabilityprequantizations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Geometric quantization (53D50)

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