Recent progress on symplectic embedding problems in four dimensions

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1018622108MaRDI QIDQ4907464zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michael Hutchings

Publication date 2 February 2013

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1069

zbMATH Keywords

four-dimensional symplectic manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42)

Abstract: We survey some recent progress on understanding when one four-dimensional symplectic manifold can be symplectically embedded into another. In 2010, McDuff established a number-theoretic criterion for the existence of a symplectic embedding of one four-dimensional ellipsoid into another. This is related to previously known criteria for when a disjoint union of balls can be symplectically embedded into a ball. The new theory of "ECH capacities" gives general obstructions to symplectic embeddings in four dimensions which turn out to be sharp in the above cases.

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