On the symplectic size of convex polytopes
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instance of: scholarly article
title: On the symplectic size of convex polytopes
zbMATH Open document ID: 1425.53097
author: Pazit Haim-Kislev
published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA
publication date: 2019-05-23T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03494
review text: If \(\mathbb R^{2n}\) is equipped with the standard symplectic structure \(\omega\), then a normalized symplectic capacity on \((\mathbb R^{2n},\omega)\) is a map \(c:U\subset\mathbb R^{2n}\to[0,\infty]\) satisfying (i)\, if \(U\subset V\) then \(c(U)\le c(V)\), (ii)\, \(c(\varphi(U))=c(U)\) for any symplectomorphism \(\varphi:\mathbb{R}^{2n}\to\mathbb{R}^{2n}\), (iii)\, \(c(\alpha U)=\alpha^2c(U)\) for \(\alpha>0\), and (iv)\, \(c(B^{2n}(r))=c(B^2(r)\times\mathbb{R}^{2n-2})=\pi r^r\). Two important examples for symplectic capacities are the Ekeland-Hofer capacity and the Hofer-Zehnder capacity. On the class of convex bodies, that is, compact convex sets with non-empty interior, in \(\mathbb{R}^{2n}\), they coincide and the resulting function is \(c_{\text{EHZ}}\), the EHZ capacity. The restriction of the standard symplectic form \(\omega\) to the boundary \(\partial\Sigma\) of a smooth domain \(\Sigma\) defines a 1-dimensional subbundle \(\ker(\omega_{|\partial\Sigma})\). A closed characteristic \(\gamma\) on \(\partial\Sigma\) is an embedded circle in \(\partial\Sigma\) whose velocity belongs to \(\ker(\omega_{|\partial\Sigma})\), i.e., \(\omega(\dot\gamma,v)=0\) for all \(v\in T\partial\Sigma\). This holds if and only if \(\dot\gamma(t)\) is parallel to \(Jn\), where \(n\) is the outer normal to \(\partial\Sigma\) at the point \(\gamma(t)\), and \(J\) is the standard complex structure. From the dynamical point of view, a closed characteristic is any reparametrization of a periodic solution to the Hamiltonian equation \(\dot\gamma(t)=J\nabla H(\gamma(t))\), for a smooth Hamiltonian function \(H:\mathbb{R}^{2n}\to\mathbb{R}\) with \(H_{|\partial\Sigma}=c\) and \(H_{|\Sigma}\le k\) for some \(k\in\mathbb{R}\) a regular value of \(H\). These periodic solutions are closed Hamiltonian trajectories. The action of a closed loop \(\gamma:[0,T]\to\mathbb{R}^{2n}\) is defined by \(A(\gamma)=\frac12\int\limits_0^T\langle J\gamma(t),\dot\gamma(t)\rangle\,dt\), and it equals t…
reviewed by: Andrew Bucki
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53D05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 52B11
zbMATH DE Number: 7058363
zbMATH Keywords: normalized symplectic capacity
zbMATH Keywords: closed characteristic
zbMATH Keywords: Ekeland-Hofer-Zehnder (EHZ) capacity
zbMATH Keywords: subadditivity property
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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DOI: 10.1007/S00039-019-00486-4
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